Throughout his papacy, Francis took steps to appoint and integrate women into leadership roles in the Vatican.

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope have accelerated with the installation of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel ...

one of the two most senior women in the Vatican, Italian Sister Simona Brambilla, who leads the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, better known ...

More significantly, he named two nuns to head two of the most important Vatican offices: Sister Simona Brambilla as head of the Vatican office responsible for all the world’s Catholic religious ...