Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

A Mozambican Catholic Nun has welcomed Pope Francis’ appointment of Sr. Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, de ...

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the executive administration of the tiny Vatican City state.

This week, two significant announcements impacting women’s empowerment deserve attention on a global scale. The first is the groundbreaking move from the Vatican, which has appointed Sister Simona ...

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) This image released on Wednesday Jan. 8, 2025 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis shaking hands with Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun who is the first ...

Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the State ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

At nearly 60 years old, Sister Simona Brambilla, former Superior General of the Missionaries of Consolation, an Italian women’s religious congregation, was appointed by Pope Francis as prefect ...

La Croix: With the appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla, this is the first time in the church's history that a woman has been named head of a dicastery in the Roman Curia. What does this mean to ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the church's religious orders.