The Vatican this week reinstated a Texas nun accused of violating her vow of chastity with a priest. Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson announced last year he was dismissing the Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach,

The Vatican has reinstated a nun who had been dismissed from her Texas order a year ago over claims she committed adultery, church officials in Fort Worth said this week.

In a ruling that in-part closes a year-long saga that at times had gotten ugly in the public sphere, the Vatican has overturned a decree from Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, dismissing Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach from the Carmelite Order.

The Holy See has reinstated a Carmelite mother superior nearly a year after the bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed her.

The Carmelite nuns at a monastery in Arlington, TX, have called for Bishop Olson to apologize to them for the dismissal of their mother prioress last year.

Though returned to the Carmelite order, the former prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, will not return to leadership of the monastery.

The legal battle between the Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and Bishop Michael Olson may be over after a second lawsuit was dismissed on Wednesday, but another fight involving orders from the Vatican over who has authority over the nuns is brewing.

Legal and religious disputes between the Arlington Carmelite nuns and Fort Worth Catholic Bishop Michael Olson are no longer pending in civil courts or at the Vatican.