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Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: CBS News Texas/YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, filed new theft and defamation charges Friday against Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth.The nuns' new charges were filed in a district court for Tarrant County, Texas, the day after Olson dismissed the monastery's prioress, Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, from religious life on the grounds that she had a sexual affair with an unnamed priest.In a Thursday decree, Olson ...

Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth was investigating nun's 'admitted-to violations' of Sixth Commandment and chastity vow

John C. O’Shea’s apparent adulation of Bishop Michael Olson in his May 25 commentary provides no voice for the Carmelite sisters.

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.

A Carmelite monastery in Texas has filed an amended lawsuit against the Diocese of Fort Worth and Bishop Michael Olson, after the bishop dismissed the community’s superior from religious life.