Vatican taps laywoman to head its Dicastery for Communication

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Vatican taps laywoman to head its Dicastery for Communication
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Pope Leo XIV appointed Maria Montserrat Alvarado, currently President and COO of EWTN News, as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, effective 1 November 2026, making her the first non-religious woman to lead a Holy See dicastery and continuing Pope Francis’s reform of the Roman Curia.

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