Some have been waiting for such an announcement for years, hoping, with each of his speeches on women, that Pope Francis would strengthen their place in the Church. Monday January 6, the Argentine sovereign pontiff decided to take an important step in this direction, by appointing a woman at the head of a dicastery. A first, because, until now, the dicasteries, kinds of ministries which, from the Vatican, govern the lives of more than 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, were always headed by men. Announced by two sentences in the “ bulletin », the bulletin in which the Vatican publishes, every day at noon, the list of appointments and other internal news, the arrival of Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, as prefect of the dicastery for consecrated life and societies of life apostolic events is therefore an event that it is not an exaggeration to describe as historic.
It is now up to this Italian nun, former superior general of the missionaries of the Consolata, a congregation founded in 1901, to preside over the destinies of some 800,000 men and women members of congregations, including those of the Dominicans, Benedictines, Franciscans and Jesuits.
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