Whereas in the past 500 years the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was the number one ranking dicastery in the Roman Curia, under Francis’ reform it is relegated to second place.

Three weeks after his election, Pope Leo XIV met for the first time with Vatican and Roman Curia employees—an audience of ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sr Tiziana Merletti, former Superior General of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, as Secretary ...

In fact, these two criteria are dominating the reshuffle of the Roman Curia. Now, as we know ... For example, the Dicastery for Education and Culture is the result of a merger between the ...

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon ...

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon ...

“The Roman Curia is not set between the Pope and the ... Under John Paul, the Congregation (now Dicastery) for Doctrine of the Faith was supreme when it came to the curial documents, while ...

Monza-born Brambilla, 59, led the women's branch of the Consolata Missionaries from 2011 to 2023 when she became the dicastery's secretary. She is now the highest-ranking woman in the Roman Curia ...

“The Roman Curia is not set between the pope and the ... for a papal fund previously controlled by the Curia and when the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced a radical ...

and Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops of the Roman curia, ceased to be. Sitting in his place was Pope Leo XIV, Bishop of Rome, Pontiff – bridge builder – of the Catholic Church. Although ...