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

The Vatican has deemed one Texas church extinct after one nun confessed to an online love affair with a priest ...

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

The following timeline is based on court documents; news stories; public statements on the website of the Diocese of Fort ...

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

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

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, ...

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.

The Holy See decree follows the dismissal of the former nuns in October by their superior after a series of disagreements ...