Sister Smerilli, a member of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, succeeds Cardinal Michael Czerny, 79, who has led the ...

Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major ...

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named Italian economist Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, FMA, to succeed Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Cardinal ...

Pope Leo XIV has made his first major appointment of a woman to the Holy See hierarchy. He is promoting Italian Sister ...

Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli has been appointed by Pope Francis as the secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY (CNS) ...

Hope Border Institute Executive Director Dylan Corbett is among four U.S. Catholics Pope Leo XIV has tapped to serve in the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. “It was an ...

Pope Francis has named Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli as secretary ad interim of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Sister Smerilli is pictured meeting the pope at the ...

The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life have jointly published a new document offering guidelines for families related to the care ...

Pope Leo has appointed new leaders for the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, naming Sister Alessandra ...