The appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla marks a significant change in the Church.

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 Catholic ...

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Pope Francis has marked another milestone in his pontificate by appointing, for the first time in the history of the Catholic ...

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Pope Francis delivered his annual “state of the world” address on Thursday, asking ambassadors to pursue a “diplomacy of hope ...

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

Women are still excluded from ordination as priests, and discussions about female ordination continue to create divisions ...