Appointment of three women to senior positions in the Catholic Church

 Appointment of three women to senior positions in the Catholic Church

Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Christian Catholic denomination, has nominated three women, including two nuns and an ordinary woman, to the church's high-powered committee that advises them on the selection of bishops of the world.

Earlier, the committee consisted of men only.

The Vatican, the center of the Catholic Church, said Wednesday that Pope Francis had revealed the decision in an exclusive interview with Reuters earlier this month, explaining that he was in the "Holy Sea." Wants to give women more high-ranking positions.

The women include Sister Raphael Petrini, the current deputy governor of Vatican City, the French nun Evan Reungot, and Lady Maria Lia Zerwino, head of the UMOFC, an association of women's Catholic organizations.

Speaking to Reuters last week, the pope responded to a question about the presence of women in the Vatican on the new religious constitution, Predict Evangelim, which reforms the church and in the future appoints these departments to a common man or ordinary woman. Can be delegated.

Sister Raphael Petrini is currently an Italian Franciscan nun and Roman Curiae official. She was born in Rome on January 15, 1969, and graduated in political science from Guido Carly, the International Degree Study Sociology at the Libra University in Rome.

He also received his doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently Professor of Welfare Economics and Economic Development at the same university.

In November last year, Pope Francis appointed her secretary general of the Pontifical Commission of the Vatican City State. She is the first woman to hold the post.

Sister Revingot was born on January 14, 1945, in the northwestern French city of Plymouth. He studied Celsian religious life when he was admitted to the Paris Post Office in 1963.

She entered the religious service on August 5, 1965. He holds a degree in history and geography from the University of Lyon and has been a school teacher in Lyon for 11 years. She was a member of the General Chapter between 1996 and 2008 and was elected Vice-General of the organization in 2002.

Sister Reungot is one of the first seven women to be appointed to the Institute of Concrete Life and Societies of Apostolic Life since July 8, 2019, when she was appointed by Pope Francis.

Lady Maria Lia Zervino, who has lived in Rome since 2013 and has known the pope since the two played a key role in the bishop's conference in Argentina. In an "open letter" he also demanded that women in the church be given more important responsibilities than just decorative roles.

He did not call for the appointment of women as pastors, which Pope Francis has already said could not happen. Instead, Lady Zerovino called for more space for women in other key leadership positions.