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The

Pope Francis

has named the Franciscan nun and political scientist

Raffaella Petrini

, 52, general secretary of the Governor of the State of Vatican City, and thus becomes the "number two".

It is the first time that a woman has held this position.

Petrini, who until now was an official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was born in Rome on January 15, 1969 and belongs to the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.

She has a degree in Political Science from the Free International University of Guido Carli, as well as a doctorate from the Pontifical University of San Tommaso d'Aquino, where she is currently a professor of Welfare Economics and Sociology of Economic Processes.

Pope Francis is thus giving visibility to the

work of women in the Church

and last August elected six as lay experts of the Council of the Economy.

One of them, Professor Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, was appointed vice-coordinator of this council in September.

Also in August, Francis appointed

several female scientists to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

, including Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier, founder and director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin and a 2020 New Prize in Chemistry.

Also Donna Theo Strickland, professor of optical physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and awarded in 2018 with the Nobel Prize in Physics for having invented in 1985, together with Gérard Mourou, the amplification of pulses chirp laser, pulses Ultra-short, high-intensity laser optics used in millions of eye surgeries.

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