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.

Nestled in the farmland of Port Tobacco, Maryland, stands the oldest Carmelite monastery in America. Founded in 1790, the Mount Carmel Monastery was the first Catholic convent for religious women in ...

This new monastery comes after years of controversy involving the prior Carmelite monastery based in Arlington.

More than two years after a scandal erupted between a group of secluded Arlington nuns and a Catholic bishop, the Vatican ...

Nuns from an Arlington, Texas, Carmelite monastery are suing the Diocese of Fort Worth and the bishop for $1 million for alleged violations of privacy and harm to their physical and emotional ...

Even as the Carmelite House of Prayer grapples with the cost to repair damage from the 2014 earthquake, its members are outlining how to reshape the monastery – and remain in the wine country it has ...

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STANTON The story of St. Joseph’s Carmelite Monastery here at 200 Carpenter St. is a classic tale of the Old West, where the priests were about as rugged as anyone. Led by Father Athanasius Peters, ...

The Holy See has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life. The decree, ...

Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth in a statement shared on YouTube denied that he abused his authority when investigating a prioress of a Carmelite monastery and alleged that she ...

BARRINGTON – When Barrington bought a former monastery from the Catholic Church last year, the plan was to turn the 7-acre parcel into housing. Passed on a single-vote margin, 176 to 175, the purchase ...

The Carmelite Brothers of Wyoming are building their own gothic monastery. To do so, they learn to use tools such as CAD, CAM ...