Pope Francis has said he will soon name another women to a key role overseeing administration of the Vatican City State. It comes in the wake of him recently appointing the first-ever woman prefect of a Vatican department.
The Pope’s remarks came in an interview with Italian journalist Fabio Fazio on the popular evening television program Che tempo che fa that aired 19 January.
Fazio asked the Pope about the recent appointment of Italian Sister Simona Brambilla as prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, commonly called the Dicastery for Religious, and what it means for the future of women in the Vatican.
