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June 5, 2023
The new charges levied by the monastery are in addition to a lawsuit filed on May 3 that seeks $1 million in civil damages and asks the court to block the bis...
June 5, 2023
(OSV News) -- Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, has dismissed a religious superior from the Carmelite order after finding her guilty of violating the Sixth Commandment and her vow of chastity, which she denies. The dioceses June 1 decree announcing the nuns dismissal said Bishop Olson was acting as Pontifical Commissary of the Monastery in Arlington, authority granted him May 31 by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, a department of
June 3, 2023
The amended petition filed Friday also accuses the bishop and the Diocese of Fort Worth of defaming the head nun of the monastery.
June 2, 2023
The religious superior from the Carmelite order will be appealing the immoral and unjust decision
June 2, 2023
Six-week-long canonical investigation culminates, as civil lawsuit proceeds.
June 2, 2023
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.
June 2, 2023
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.
June 1, 2023
The decree was made in response to the Bishop investigating the monastery's head nun breaking her vow of chastity.
June 1, 2023
Amid the investigation, the bishop banned the monastery from celebrating daily Mass and blocked access to regular confessions.
June 1, 2023
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...