joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ANSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ANSA</span></a>, 11:36am ET, Jan 6</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a> has appointed Sister <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SimonaBrambilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SimonaBrambilla</span></a> as Prefect of the Dicastery 4 Institutes of Consecrated Life &amp; Societies of Apostolic Life, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vatican</span></a> Press Office said Mon<br> She is the first ever female prefect of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatholicChurch</span></a><br> Monza-born Brambilla, 59, led the women's branch of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConsolataMissionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConsolataMissionaries</span></a> from 2011 to 2023 when she became the dicastery's secretary<br> She→now the highest-ranking <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a> in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RomanCuria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCuria</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.ansa.it/english/news/vatican/2025/01/06/pope-names-first-ever-woman-prefect_f218fe20-3362-4028-b6a2-d75c534d45e2.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ansa.it/english/news/vatican/2</span><span class="invisible">025/01/06/pope-names-first-ever-woman-prefect_f218fe20-3362-4028-b6a2-d75c534d45e2.html</span></a></p>