{"id":26386,"date":"2025-01-08T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/heres-what-to-know-about-the-first-female-vatican-prefect-in-the-catholic-churchs-history\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:27:09","slug":"heres-what-to-know-about-the-first-female-vatican-prefect-in-the-catholic-churchs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/heres-what-to-know-about-the-first-female-vatican-prefect-in-the-catholic-churchs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecco cosa sapere sulla prima donna prefetto vaticano nella storia della Chiesa Cattolica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>[ad_1] Sister Simona Brambilla, the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life \/ Credit: Vatican News ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 8, 2025 \/ 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis has marked another milestone in his pontificate by appointing, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, a woman to head a Vatican dicastery. She is Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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She is Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-26386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38657,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-appoints-nun-as-secretary-of-dicastery-for-institutes-of-consecrated-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":26386,"position":0},"title":"Pope Leo XIV appoints nun as secretary of Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Maggio 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"From the popemobile, Pope Leo XIV greets thousands of people lined up along Via della Conciliazione on the morning of his inaugural Mass, Sunday, May 18, 2025. \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 22, 2025 \/ 14:18 pm (CNA). 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In those meetings, he highlights the Church\u2019s current priorities:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christian News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":102680,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/pope-leo-appoints-leader-of-knights-of-columbus-to-vatican-body\/","url_meta":{"origin":26386,"position":2},"title":"Pope Leo appoints leader of  Knights of Columbus to Vatican body","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Agosto 30, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Pope Leo XIV has appointed Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly as a member of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life. The Vatican announced Kelly\u2019s appointment on Aug. 25.The dicastery was created by Pope Francis in 2016 to promote, as stated in its statutes, \u201cthe apostolate of the lay faithful, the pastoral care of the family and its mission according to God\u2019s plan and for the safeguard and support of human life.\u201d The dicastery is also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christian News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":101013,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/san-francisco-archbishop-among-new-members-of-vaticans-highest-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":26386,"position":3},"title":"San Francisco archbishop among new members of Vatican\u2019s highest court","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Luglio 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Pope Leo XIV has appointed San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Kalamazoo, Michigan, Bishop Edward M. Lohse among seven new members of the Apostolic Signatura, the Catholic Church\u2019s highest court.Cordileone has led the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 2012. Previously an auxiliary bishop of San Diego and bishop of Oakland, California, he is known for his public defense of contested Catholic teachings, including the Church\u2019s teaching on marriage. 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A senior Vatican official explained the Vatican\u2019s support for the exhibition and its recent focus on contemporary art.Irish Bishop Paul Tighe, secretary of the Culture Section at the Dicastery for Culture and Education, told EWTN News that contemporary artists can reach people in ways that the Church cannot.\u201cContemporary artists have their fingers on the pulse of humanity,\u201d Tighe told EWTN\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christian News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Explaining the Vatican\u2019s engagement with contemporary art","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Explaining-the-Vaticans-engagement-with-contemporary-art.png?fit=1200%2C784&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Explaining-the-Vaticans-engagement-with-contemporary-art.png?fit=1200%2C784&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Explaining-the-Vaticans-engagement-with-contemporary-art.png?fit=1200%2C784&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Explaining-the-Vaticans-engagement-with-contemporary-art.png?fit=1200%2C784&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Explaining-the-Vaticans-engagement-with-contemporary-art.png?fit=1200%2C784&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sis.simona.jpg?fit=647%2C446&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}