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Sister Simona Brambilla, the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. (Vatican News via CBCP News) Pope Francis has marked another milestone in ...

For Mustang enthusiasts, life just got a little sweeter. Ford Motor Co. is offering the first special edition of its Mustang GTD — the high-performance, street-legal supercar the company started ...

She is Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Brambilla, who will turn 60 on March 27 ...

She is also a professional nurse. Sister Simona Brambilla, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (photo: Vatican News) Walter Sánchez ...

The unusual decision to appoint Sister Simona Brambilla as prefect and Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime as pro-prefect has sparked discussion about the intersection of traditional Church hierarch ...

ROME – Pope Francis this week made the novel decision to appoint the first-ever woman as prefect of a Vatican department, naming Italian Consolata Sister Simona Brambilla as head of the ...