The Vatican has given its blessing to a document suggesting that those with same-sex attraction can pursue the priesthood in ...

All three had been serving as consultors of the dicastery and become the first non-bishops to join the more than 40 cardinal- ...

Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

Guidelines for seminaries adopted by bishops' conference in late 2023 have Vatican approval for a three-year trial period ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...

The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented ...

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David as a member of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ...

Sister Brambilla, who trained as a nurse before entering religious life, was a missionary in Mozambique in the late 1990s.

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.