Pope Leo’s First Curial Appointment Signals Continuity on Women

Can Prevost break with the glass ceiling in an institution as patriarchal as the Catholic Church? Francis initiated a process that has in women's access to the diaconate, the priesthood or the cardinalate some red lines that the most conservative sectors are not willing to passThe Sodalicio led a revenge to discredit Prevost and prevent him from being Pope Last Thursday, Leo XIV made the first appointment of a high office in the Curia since his …

Pope Leo’s first curial appointment signals continuity on women

ROME – As with any papal transition, when Pope Leo XIV was elected questions arose about what his priorities would be, and whether he would continue to advance the priorities and reforms of his predecessor. One of the most consistent questions up to now, as the world is getting to know Pope Leo, has been what his approach to women will be, and whether he will continue Pope Francis’s trailblazing efforts to create more meaningful spaces for them …

Pope appoints nun as secretary of Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Tiziana Merletti as secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

This continues his predecessor’s legacy of including women in leadership roles within the Vatican

Pope Leo names religious sister in first top-level Roman Curia appointment

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon lawyer, to be secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Pope Leo XIV appoints nun as secretary of Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life

From the popemobile, Pope Leo XIV greets thousands of people lined up along Via della Conciliazione on the morning of his inaugural Mass, Sunday, May 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 22, 2025 / 14:18 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV ha... [...]