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

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

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.

Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of ...

The Discalced Carmelites, known officially as the Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or the Order of Discalced Carmelites, is a Catholic mendicant order with ...

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 ...

Janice Vonada of Keller places roses at the gate to the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, where the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington live and pray, on May 31, 2023. The priest at the center ...

28 on the Fort Worth Diocese’s website that the seven nuns are no longer members of the Order of Discalced Carmelites because they “have reverted to the lay state by their own actions.” ...