Ordained offices are still barred to women, but the nun Alessandra Smerilli now leads a ministry of the pope. An economics degree that she actually never wanted to do helped her.
A glass ceiling? Didn’t exist for Alessandra Smerilli. In the Roman Curia, where the southern Italian nun and economist achieved a picture-book rise, women have hitherto bumped into a ceiling made of reinforced concrete. Isn’t it, Suor Alessandra?