Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

Appointing another woman to an administrative post at the Vatican, Pope Francis says women suffer 'no deprivation' in not ...

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

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.

The absence of women in any capacity has characterised the Catholic Church from its inception. Pope Francis seeks to portray ...

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

He praised Scicluna and Bertomeu, as well as the new prefect of the Vatican's office for religious orders, Sister Simona Brambilla, since she is ultimately responsible for the SCV. “And of course ...

Pope Francis appointed Sister Simona Brambilla, a 59-year-old Italian nun, as the prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, making her the first ...

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 ...

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 ...