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

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

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

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

For nearly 19 months, a dispute between the bishop of Fort Worth and seven women who are members of the Discalced Carmelite ...

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

The Vatican has ruled that a monastery in Arlington is “extinct,” dissolving it and stripping the women there of their status ...

Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth announced on Monday that he received a decree of suppression last week from ...

The decree stated that the monastery 'is extinct' after nuns defected from the faith, amid legal and spiritual turmoil ...

The decree, issued Nov. 28 by the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, ...

The Vatican has expelled a group of Texas nuns amid a yearlong dispute between the sisters and Fort Worth Bishop Michael ...

Forth Worth Bishop Michael Olson said masses and sacraments held at the 72-acre property are "done so without faculties or permission" from the Vatican.