The yearlong dispute between a cloistered order of Carmelites and their local bishop — a saga that has included a lawsuit, allegations of adultery and drug use, recordings of the superior's ...

Bishop Michael Olson announced Dec. 2 that the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life gave permission for the new monastery.

A religious community of 14 Discalced Carmelite nuns has moved from a busy street in Buffalo, New York, where their order has lived for more than a century, to the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, ...