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FaithFeatures
Colleen Dulle
There is a long way to go before women’s voices are satisfactorily integrated into the central leadership of the church.
Brazilian Sisters of Providence celebrate a novice’s final vow ceremony with a ‘selfie’ in September 2020. Photo courtesy of Sisters of Providence
FaithDispatches
Filipe Domingues
Besides taking up the challenge of exploring new frontiers of evangelization in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Brazilian women religious have also become evangelizers of the “old continent,” Europe, where female vocations have radically declined in recent decades.
Pope Francis named Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli as undersecretary for faith and development at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Sister Smerilli is pictured meeting the pope at the Vatican in an undated photo. (CNS photo/Vatican Media, courtesy Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Increasing the visibility of women and tapping the wisdom they offer will surely encourage laypeople around the world. Religious sisters and nuns were ranked more trustworthy than bishops, priests and the Vatican in a recent survey of U.S. Catholics sponsored by America.
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
To date women haven’t been able to vote—not even the religious superiors who participate as representatives of the world’s 641,000 nuns.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The appointment makes her the highest ranking woman in the Roman Curia.
Politics & SocietyInterviews
Kevin Clarke
Mary Haddad, R.S.M., the C.E.O. and president of the Catholic Health Association, agrees that more must be done now to halt the advance of the Delta variant.