S. Pope Francisco Leave a legacy of progress in Inclusion of women In prominent jobs inside Catholic Church. In 2013, when Argentina was elected, women formed 19.2 % of the Vatican employees. After a decade, they rose to 23.4 %.
A survey conducted by the Vatican News in 2023 revealed that the number of employees working in Santa C and the Vatican city administration jumped from 846 to 1165 in the first ten years of Pontef Francisco.
At the time of the survey, the Apostolic Chair used 3114 people, including 812 women. In practice, this means that one of every four employees was a woman.
Along Pontificate from Francis, Women won unprecedented dates for the Vatican jobs The right to vote in global bishops. However, there is an end that the Pope did not go beyond: the consolidation of women as a priest, not even to become decorative.
The deacon is a position, occupied by men, dedicated to serving in the church and in Catholic hierarchy is less than a priest. He cannot celebrate the masses, hear confessions or paint patients.
In 2016, at the request of a group of nuns, Pope Francis invented a committee in the Vatican to study the female slogan in the history of the church.
The work of this committee ended in 2018 without reaching consensus. Thus, the Pope established a second committee, in this case, which was not given any response unanimously.
In October 2019, in the final report of the bishops on the Amazon, there was a mention of the recognition of the “primary role of women” in Amazon societies and a request for leaders in the region to participate in the discussion about the implementation of the female logo.
In October 2023, in the first session of the twenty -sixth regular general assembly of Sinodes Bishops, she once again requested studying the possibility of a rail in the church.
In May 2024, in an interview with the American station CBS the Pope showed doubts.
“It is not for diabetic women. Giving them space in the church does not mean providing them with a ministry,” Francis said, adding, “But women have always had the role of diabetics without being deacons, right? Women with great use as women, and not as ministers in the Holy System.”
In his book “Let’s dream together: the way to a better future”, which was released in 2020, the ink summarized its position on the presence of women in the church.
The Pope said: “The challenge was to create spaces that a woman can lead, but so that they can form a culture, ensure their appreciation, respect and recognition.”
On November 6, 2022, in an interview during the return trip to Bahrain, she answers a question about the woman’s right, the Pope talked about this book:
“A society that the woman cannot put in the place because of which it does not advance. We have experience in this. In the book I wrote,” Let’s dream together “, I talk about the part they have, for example, in the economy: at this time, there are economic women in the world who changed the economic perspective and can take it from that.
In the same interview on the plane, Francis added: “I saw that in the Vatican, whenever a woman enters a job, things improve. For example, the Vatican Vice -Raki (the Secretary -General of the Ruler, Rafael Petrini) is a woman, and things have changed for the better.
The ink completed the statement: “Now, at the papal academy for life, she put a great economic expert from the United States, Mariana Mazotokato, to give her more humanity. Women contribute to this. They should not become like men … we need them.
In January 2021, the Pope created a change in the law of the ecclesiastical – the Church’s List – to allow women during the mass to read the Bible and distribute the company – to provide two hosts.
Francisco reviewed the old document issued by Pope Paul VI (1972), which determined that men alone can obtain the ministries of the reader and acceptance, representing the institutional character to the usual practice.
Women vote for the first time in the bishops
In February 2021, the Pope appointed the French religious Nathalie becquart as an agent of the Synod of the bishops, becoming the first woman to vote in the Singo Society. It was a historical teacher to open the doors for more transformations.
In 2023, Francisco strengthened major changes in the role of women in the church. That year, the ink allowed women to vote for the first time in a global bishop.
Before these changes, women can only participate as reviews, without voting on the final text that summarizes the approved instructions at the top.
The sixteenth general assembly of Sinodes bishops was held in two sessions, the first in October 2023 and the second in October 2024.
According to the Italian newspaper Avvenire, the members of the Senodes 365 were in total, i.e. 364 in addition to the ink. Of these, 54 women. Others were 85, including 27 women.
In that edition, the approved document highlighted the Vatican initiatives to expand the space and participation of women in ecclesiastical structures. The last text said that “there are no reasons that prevent women from taking leadership roles in the church.”
The appointment of women in leadership positions
In 2021, Pope Francis was first appointed Amin, the Italian religious Smandra, who began to act in Decker to serve integrated human development. This was the highest position ever by a woman at the time.
Since then, Francis has renewed the church structure when, in 2022, the Evangelium Constitution has been established on the Roman Korea, the central government of the Catholic Church.
The new document for women enabled the direction of Decker, equivalent to the ministry. Thus, women can become municipal heads, a position that the Cardinals and bishops cannot carry in the past.
However, in January 2025, Francisco also appointed the first woman to head one of the most relevant departments in the Vatican.
Brambilla Nun was chosen to lead the finest to the institutes of devoted life and the Apostolic Life Associations, responsible for supervising the Catholic religious orders around the world. She became the first mayor in the Vatican.
From March 1, 2025, Franciscan Denella Rafaella Petrini began holding the position of Chairman of the Pap for the Vatican city, as well as the head of governance. Her appointment was already announced by Francis on January 19 of the same year.
For 12 years of papacy, Francisco attributed other positions. During this time, they began to occupy the “second driving” jobs in various Vatican offices, such as development, family life and the press.
In 2017, for the first time, Francisco also appointed a woman to direct the Vatican museums, Italian historian Barbara Gata.
Among the women who hold great related positions in the Vatican, the Brazilian journalist Christian Murray. Since 2019, she has been running the official of the official press room, which was also appointed by Francisco.
Restrictions on female priesthood
Although the female presence in the Vatican Temple is encouraged, Pope Francis maintained his position unlike the consolidation of women. In 2022, this position reaffirmed by highlighting the distinction between the “Marian Principle” and “Petrine” in an interview with the American Magazine magazine.
According to him, Mary represents the female dimension of the church, while Peter symbolizes the male – which is a distinction that, for the Pope, is a theological and should not be explained as the issue of gender equality in the ministry.
In 2024, during a conference on the development of the role of men and women in accordance with Christian teachings, The Pope repeated this vision by saying that there are basic differences between men and women and that “the abolition of these differences means the abolition of humanity”.
Francisco made this statement referring to what was classified by the “gender ideology”.
“I asked for studies on this ideology, which overlooks the differences and makes everything as it is.”
The future of women
In 2024, the International Women’s Conference in the Vatican Church received more than 150 participants, including 10 women, who were honored by Pope Francis.
At that time, the ink submitted a request for the future of women in the church and in the world: “We help each other, without demanding and without tearing, but with careful discrimination, and the lead to the voice of the soul and the believers in the company, to find paths suitable for greatness and the role of women to be more valuable in the people of God.”
Finally, Francis said that the right of women to education is preserved.
“In the world, where women still suffer from a lot of violence, inequality, injustice and abuse -and this is a scandal, especially for those who recognize the belief in God born from women -there is a serious form of discrimination, which is related to girls, which is related to girls, and works on that, and this is considered women, which is related to girls, related to girls, and this is considered women It is associated with girls, women, and women, and it is associated with girls.
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