Vatican city: Pope Francis He said he wanted to give women more top-level positions in the Holy See and revealed that for the first time he would name women on the previously all-male Vatican committee that helps them select the world’s bishops.
The role of women in the Vatican hierarchy was one of many church and international topics that the 85-year-old pontiff discussed in an exclusive interview with Reuters on July 2 at his Vatican residence. A new constitution came for the central administration of the Holy See. Allows any baptized Catholic from the previous month, including laymen and women, to head most departments of the Vatican. “I am ready to give (women) an opportunity,” she said in part of the 90-minute interview, which discussed the new constitution, known as the Kuriya.
He mentioned that last year, he named a woman for the first time in the number two position in the governorship of Vatican City, making Sister Rafaella Petrini Highest ranking woman in the smallest state in the world. “For the first time two women will be appointed to the committee to elect a bishop congregation for bishopsHe added. The move, which has not been officially announced, is extremely important because for the first time women will have a role in the appointment of the world’s bishops, who are all men. Francis He did not name the women or say when an official announcement of their appointment would be made.
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