Pope Francis names three women to bishops advisory committee

Vatican: Pope Francis has named three women, two nuns and a laywoman, to a previously all-male committee that advises him in selecting the world’s bishop’s, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

He had disclosed the decision in an interview with a news agency earlier this month, explaining he wanted to give women more top-level positions in the Holy See (The Holy See also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome).

The three women are sister Raffaella Petrini, currently the deputy governor of the Vatican City, French nun Yvonne Reungoat and laywoman Maria Lia Zervino, head of the association of women’s catholic organisations UMOFC (Unión Mundial de las Organizaciones Femeninas Católicas).