Critics Continue to Question Barriers to Women in the Catholic Church The first woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, has been appointed to oversee a major Vatican office. She was named by Pope Francis ...
Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the ...
While women have been named to No. 2 spots in some Vatican offices, never before has a woman been named prefect of a dicastery or congregation of the Holy See Curia, the central governing organ of the ...
Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.