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Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson issued the decree on Thursday night, acting on sweeping powers the Vatican recently granted him over the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a small religious order in Texas.

Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, has dismissed the superior of a Carmelite monastery from religious life, in the latest move in a public dispute with the religious community.

The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite NunsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 2, 2023 / 12:40 pm (CNA).Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, issued a decree Thursday dismissing Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach from religious life following a nearly six-week-long investigation into an alleged sexual affair involving a priest.In his decree, Olson announced...

The decree was made in response to the Bishop investigating the monastery's head nun breaking her vow of chastity.

Amid the investigation, the bishop banned the monastery from celebrating daily Mass and blocked access to regular confessions.

Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: CBS News Texas/YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Amid an ongoing legal dispute between the Diocese of Fort Worth and a Carmelite monastery, the diocese announced that the Vatican formally recognized Bishop Michael Olson as having authority over the nuns.A diocesan statement said that the Vatican appointed the bishop as the pontifical commissary, which makes him "the popes representative in this m...

In a decree on Wednesday, the Vatican granted Forth Worth Bishop Michael Olson full governing powers over the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a religious order that runs a monastery in Arlington.

The Holy See has declared Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth to be "pontifical commissary" of the Monastery of Saint Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, according to a decree from the dicastery for religious life, dated May 31, 2023 and published on the website of the Diocese of Fort Worth. Olson "will assume his office upon communication" of the decree, it said.

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(OSV News) -- The Holy See has declared Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth to be pontifical commissary of the Monastery of Saint Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, according to a decree from the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life dated May 31, 2023 and published on the website of the Diocese of Fort Worth. Bishop Olson will assume his office upon communication of the decree, it said. This role, the decree says, gives Bishop Olson full gover