Pope names women to bishops advisory committee for first time
PHILIP PULLELLA 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 bishops, the Vatican said. He had disclosed the decision in an exclusive interview with Reuters earlier this month, explaining he wanted to give women more senior and influential positions in the Holy See. The three women are sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian who is currently the deputy governor of the Vatican City, French nun Yvonne Reungoat, a former superior general of a religious order, and an Argentine laywoman Maria Lia Zervino, president of the World…