For First Time, Pope Francis Names Women To Committee On Selecting Bishops
Vatican City: Pope Francis has named 3 girls, nuns and a laywoman, to a formerly all-male committee that advises him in deciding on the world’s bishop’s, the Vatican stated on Wednesday.
He had disclosed the choice in an distinctive interview with Reuters in advance this month, explaining he desired to present girls greater top-degree positions withinside the Holy See.
The 3 girls are sister Raffaella Petrini, presently the deputy governor of the Vatican City, French nun Yvonne Reungoat and laywoman Maria Lia Zervino, head of the affiliation of girls’s catholic businesses UMOFC.
