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

In a new interview Pope Francis announced that after recently appointing the first-ever woman prefect of a Vatican department ...

The move marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in the church, while standing firm on not allowing them to be ordained as priests.View on euronews ...

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 ...

Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated ...

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

a woman to head a Vatican dicastery. She is Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Brambilla ...

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 ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

6 (UPI) --Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect ... the presence of women in the Vatican has increased," the Vatican said in a statement.

ROME — 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 ...

Pope Francis announced that a 59-year-old Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, would serve as prefect for one of the most important offices in the Vatican. Sister Brambilla will oversee every ...