{"id":40267,"date":"2025-01-07T05:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40267"},"modified":"2025-01-07T05:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:12:44","slug":"pope-francis-appoints-first-woman-to-lead-major-vatican-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/pope-francis-appoints-first-woman-to-lead-major-vatican-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Appoints First Woman to Lead Major Vatican Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Pope Francis, on Monday, appointed the first woman to lead one of the major departments in the Vatican, an Italian nun who will take charge of the office overseeing Catholic religious guidelines worldwide.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sister Simona Brambilla (59 years old) will head the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in the Vatican. She will replace Cardinal Jo\u00e3o Braz de Aviz, a Brazilian who has held the position since 2011, according to Reuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pope Francis has elevated women to leadership roles in the Vatican during his papacy, which has lasted for 11 years. He has appointed several women to second-in-command positions across various departments.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Brambilla has been appointed as the &#8220;Dean&#8221; of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the internationally recognized sovereign body that oversees the global Catholic Church.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, on Monday, appointed the first woman to lead one of the major departments in the Vatican, an Italian nun who will take charge of the office overseeing Catholic religious guidelines worldwide. Sister Simona Brambilla (59 years old) will head the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40268,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions\/40268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}