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The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite NunsCNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 13:04 pm (CNA).The Holy See has reinstated a Carmelite mother superior nearly a year after the bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed her after alleged inappropriate conduct with a priest. Bishop Michael Olson issued a decree on June 1, 2023, dismissing Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach from religious life following a nearly six-week-long investigation into the affair. Gerlach had previously served as the prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington. Olson said at the time of the dismissal that the investigation had found her "guilty of having violated the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue and her vow of chastity with a priest from outside the Diocese of Fort Worth."In a statement on Wednesday, Olson said that the Vatican's Dicastery for Ins...
The Cathedral of St. Augustine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. / Credit: rossograph via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 13:38 pm (CNA).Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has released the third of seven reports on alleged sexual abuse in dioceses throughout the state. The report details "allegations of abuse that took place in the Diocese of Kalamazoo," one of seven in the state of Michigan. Previous reports focused on the Dioceses of Gaylord and Marquette.As with the prior reports, the Kalamazoo investigation details abuse allegations that stretch back decades. The review includes allegations of misconduct "by priests who are current or former clergy for the Diocese of Kalamazoo that occurred in the diocese from Jan. 1, 1950, to the present."The Diocese of Kalamazoo was previously part of the Diocese of Grand Rapids; it did not become its own named diocese until 1971.The diocese "agreed to provide reports of abuse to the Department of Attorney General," Nessel...
St. Vincent de Paul Church, the oldest Catholic parish church in continuous use in Baltimore, which was dedicated in 1841, is among the churches slated for closure. / Credit: Smash the Iron Cage|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 4.0CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 14:08 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced this week that more than half of the parishes in Baltimore's historic city core will close or merge as part of a major pastoral planning process.The final plans, announced May 22, will see 61 parishes at 59 worship sites in Baltimore City and some nearby areas of Baltimore County reduced to 23 parishes at 30 worship sites."These decisions, while difficult, are made with an eye toward a future goal of hope," Archbishop William Lori said in a video message, saying the plan was put together, "guided by the Holy Spirit," with an eye to helping the parishes prioritize announcing the Gospel and helping neighbors in need.The many Catholic churches in Baltimore City were built to serve "a surgi...