Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican ...

Sister Alessandra Smerilli was second-in-command in the office under the outgoing Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit appointed ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...