Pope Appoints Woman To High Vatican Office

Pope Francis has for the first time appointed a woman to a high office in the state administration of Vatican City.

Sister Raffaella Petrini was named secretary-general of the governorate of Vatican City, the Holy See announced on Thursday.

She is the first woman to hold the second-highest office in governorate.

She will oversees the Vatican Museums and other Vatican State services such as the mint and stamp office and the motor pool.

Petrinie, 52, from Rome was with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which carries .

Francis has focused on women in his personnel decisions in recent months.

Earlier in the year he made theologian Nathalie Becquart the first woman in the history of the Catholic Church to serve as an under-secretary in the Synod of Bishops.

Then, in August, Francis named Sister Alessandra Smerilli as interim Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, which focusses on migration and poverty issues.

She was also named as a delegate of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission.

Earlier, it was announced that Pope Francis would not attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

Instead, the Vatican announced that it would send a delegation to be led by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, the Holy See said.

The summit, the success of which is widely considered crucial to the global effort to combat the climate crisis, will take place in the Scottish city from Oct. 3, to Nov. 12.

While the Pope’s attendance at the meeting was never officially confirmed, the Pope himself suggested that his trip was planned in an interview with a Spanish radio station in early September.

“Everything depends on how I feel then,’’ he remarked at the time. “The plan is that I will be there.’’

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