The following timeline is based on court documents; news stories; public statements on the website of the Diocese of Fort ...

The Holy See decree follows the dismissal of the former nuns in October by their superior after a series of disagreements ...

The Vatican has ended a yearlong feud between Fort Worth Catholic Bishop Michael Olson and a group of cloistered nuns in North Texas over chastity vows, saying the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of ...

The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, known as a group within the Catholic Church ...

The Vatican issued the statement on Thursday, Nov. 28, a month after the nuns were dismissed from religious life because they ...

The Vatican's latest statement comes about a month after the nuns' Vatican-appointed leader announced they were dismissed ...

The Vatican says it no longer recognizes an Arlington monastery at the center of a fiery dispute with the Fort Worth bishop.

LEWISTON, Maine—A man shot and killed at least 16 people at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday and then fled into the night, sparking a massive search by hundreds of ...

When I began this project, I thought of nuns as always dour and serious. But they love to laugh and be festive too. Here, Mother Maria del Carmen (at left) and Sister Virginia stand by a dessert ...

Experience the Holy Land in DC! Dedicated in 1898, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is one of our city's most beautiful destinations. Tour our historic church and catacombs.

An irate Uber Eats driver slugged two sisters outside their Bronx jewelry store – knocking one unconscious – when a Thanksgiving Eve fight over their delivery turned violent, according to cops ...

‘Our employer is God himself.’ Sister Carolyn Martin (left), a vocations coordinator for The Little Sisters of the Poor, poses with her fellow sisters, all smiling gleefully. (photo: Courtesy ...