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Pope names first female dicastery head

The link between Holy Orders and Church governance is increasingly unclear... By ITV staff Italian Consolata Missionary Sister Simona Brambilla was secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life until being named its Prefect in January Pope Francis promulgated Praedicate Evangelium, his new constitution on the structures and [...]

Cuts and consolidations in the Roman Curia

“Combine the dicasteries, for example, to streamline the organization a bit.” This is what Pope Francis said he wanted to do in the Roman curia, responding to journalists on the return flight from his late May pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The fact that the merger of dicasteries was one of the changes studied by the [...]