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Witness: Bishop Michael Olson unstable, ‘possessed’
Disturbing details have emerged about Bp. Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, revealing what appears to be a dark side.
Church Militant obtained 1,800 pages of court documents in a defamation lawsuit filed by Fr. Richard Kirkham, a Fort Worth priest, against Olson. In the file is a sworn statement by one Diane Cluley, a 90-year-old woman who has been described as Olson’s “surrogate mother,” who took Olson under her wing when he was a young seminarian.
. . .Cluley became something of a confidant to Olson, who frequently called her on the phone. According to her testimony, she said that while their relationship was fine throughout his seminary and priest years, he abruptly changed once he became bishop.
“[H]e became obsessed with his power,” she said. His phone calls also became increasingly “violent.”
According to her, Olson had a vindictive streak and frequently took out his anger on priests, in particular those he envied.
In one disturbing admission, she described a phone call in which Olson spoke about his desire to torture and murder a priest. . .
It remains unclear who the priest is Olson was referring to. According to Cluley, the next morning, the bishop came to visit her and apologized for his comments. Even so, she became less and less comfortable with their conversations, which often included expletives and badmouthing priests behind their backs.
“I was used to the cursing by then,” she said. “I was used to the way he cursed priests and the things he said about them.”
Cluley described Olson as “possessed.”
“I was afraid,” she said. “It was like somebody who was possessed ... because this power corrupted him.”
Cluley made clear that while she still loves Olson (whom she refers to as Michael), she does not believe he is emotionally or psychologically stable, and should not remain bishop of Fort Worth.
“He wasn’t that way before,” she said. “He was never that way. He was totally corrupted by this power.”. . .