"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence"

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. The Apostle Paul, First Epistle to Timothy, 2:12

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the former superior general of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor as secretary of one of the Vatican dicasteries. She is the second woman in the leadership of the Vatican dicasteries, and will serve directly under the first, whom Pope Francis appointed prefect of a dicastery in January 2025.

It is curious that Pope Leo XIII, to whose spiritual legacy Prevost appealed in choosing his name, defended in his writings the traditional gender roles in the structure of the Church and the hierarchical nature of ecclesiastical authority, reserved for men.

But as early as 2022 Pope Francis reformed the Roman Curia, laying down in the new apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium that any baptised person may head a Vatican dicastery, which made it possible for baptised laymen and laywomen to hold leading posts in the Roman Curia.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence"

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s