(OSV News) Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, has dismissed a religious superior from the Carmelite order after finding her guilty of violating the Sixth Commandment and her vow of chastity, which she denies.
The diocese s June 1 decree announcing the nun s dismissal said Bishop Olson was acting as Pontifical Commissary of the Monastery in Arlington, authority granted him May 31 by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, a department of
(OSV News) The Holy See has declared Bishop Michael F. 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 Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life dated May 31, 2023 and published on the website of the Diocese of Fort Worth. Bishop Olson will assume his office upon communication of the decree, it said.
This role, the decree says, gives Bishop Olson full gover