Marissa Greene | Fort Worth Report

While a canonical investigation between the Arlington Carmelite nuns and Fort Worth Bishop Michael F. Olson is pending in Rome, tensions remain.

After the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, Assadullah Nazar’s family fled to Qatar, more than 1,000 miles from their home country. Nazar and his wife and daughter spent about five days in the sheikdom’s airport on the Arabian Peninsula before they could seek refuge in the U.S.

Sabrina Ball, a Fort Worth mother of two, will carefully watch her local school board for the next several months. As her children begin a new academic year, her district will have to vote on whether to hire or accept volunteer chaplains into its schools.

The move comes just a week after Fort Worth staff proposed suggestions to the policy during a city work session and while the city currently faces a First Amendment lawsuit from Metroplex Atheists, a North Texas nonprofit that applied to use the banner program and was denied.

Fort Worth Assistant City Manager William Johnson told City Council members and staff that updates to the city’s banner policy have been “well overdue.”

Judge Don Cosby plans to decide next week whether Tarrant County has jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed by Arlington nuns against Fort Worth’s Bishop Michael Olson.

Four years ago, the city of Fort Worth was hit with backlash after allowing Metroplex Atheists, a North Texas nonprofit, to promote an event with signs on downtown street lights. Now, the same organization is suing after the city denied its request to promote another event.

Clergy in the historically Black neighborhood assembled to address a mass shooting that occurred during a Como neighborhood block party late July 3. The incident left three people dead and eight injured.

The suit accused Bishop Michael Olson of illegally accessing electronic devices in a search to confirm whether the head nun broke her vow of chastity. Arlington police also closed its criminal investigation into the incident.

Judge Don Cosby plans to decide next week whether Tarrant County has jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed by Arlington nuns against Fort Worth’s Bishop Michael Olson.