TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — In a letter to the Catholic members of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Bishop Michael Olson announced the founding of a new Carmelite monastery following years of controversy involving the prior monastery.
Olson announced in the letter that Pope Leo XIV granted permission for the establishment in Northern Cooke County, which falls under the Diocese of Fort Worth.
“This decision, confirmed by the favorable vote of the Dicastery and the permission of the President of the ‘Christ the King’ Association of Discalced Carmelite Monasteries in the U.S.A., marks a moment of extraordinary grace for our local Church,” Olson wrote…