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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 pope's representative in this matter." The statement said the May 31 decree was issued through the Dicastery for Institutes o...
Bishop Franco Mulakkal. / file photo.Rome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 05:36 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of an Indian bishop cleared in early 2022 of charges of raping a religious sister in his diocese.The resignation of the 59-year-old Bishop Franco Mulakkal as head of the Diocese of Jalandhar comes more than 16 months after his acquittal by a court in India's Kerala state in January 2022.The judge in the case found that "the prosecution failed to prove all the charges against the accused."The Vatican did not indicate whether it carried out its own investig...
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Father Andrew Small, OMI. / Photo courtesy of Father Small.Rome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).The Vatican is looking into the transfer of $17 million from the U.S. arm of a Church mission to an investment fund, according to the Associated Press.AP reported May 31 that Pope Francis has asked aides to "get to the bottom of how" the money was transferred.The transfers date mostly to 2021, when the board of directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies U.S.A. (TPMS-US) approved moving at least $17 million to a nonprofit organization and its private equity fund owned by the organ...