Pro-prefect Artime, however, is already a cardinal and does not exercise jurisdiction in place of the pope. If anything, he works alongside the prefect, Sister Brambilla.

The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented arrangement in Vatican governance.

Pope Benedict has appointed Fr. Raymundo Sabio to be the apostolic prefect of the Marshall Islands where he will serve 4,601 Catholics and seven priests.

Cape Town – The provincial Education Department said it is preparing an intervention programme at Laerskool Mikro in Kuils River after the school allowed a pupil who called his peers the “K ...

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A secondary school has made nearly all its Year 13 students prefects, but not everyone agrees with the decision. Reporoa College recently announced all senior students who applied to be a prefect ...