The Vatican declared a Texas convent is "extinct" after it was revealed its reverend mother had an online affair with an out-of-state priest.
"The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life writes to inform you that after having carefully examined your votum and that of the President of the Carmelite Associate of Christ the King of the U.S.A., has determined that the community of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Arlington, Texas, U.S.A., is extinct..." Bishop Michael Olson wrote in a letter published on Dec. 2.
