(ANSA) - Vatican City, November 7 - Pope Francis has
appointed two women as under-Secretaries of the Dicastery for
the Laity, Family and Life, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
They are Professor Gabriella Gambino for the section for life
and Dr Linda Ghisoni, currently judge at the Court of First
Instance for cases of nullity of marriage for the Lazio region,
for the section for the lay faithful.
In 1995 she graduated in political science from the
University of Milan; in 2001 she received her PhD in bioethics
from the Institute of Bioethics at the Catholic University of
the Sacred Heart in Rome.
From 2001 to 2007 she has been teaching, studying and
researching bioethics at the Institute of Methodology of Social
Sciences at the LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. In 2002
she was appointed as scientific expert on the National Committee
for Bioethics at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers;
from 2013 to 2016 she collaborated with the Pontifical Council
for the Laity and with the Pontifical Academy for Life, also as
a speaker at conferences; in 2017 she was visiting Professor at
the Brazilian section of the Institute at the Universidade
Católica do Salvador de Bahia.
She is currently adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the
Faculty of Philosophy, researcher and associate Professor in
Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of
Rome Tor Vergata; she is also Professor at the Pontifical John
Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and
Family at the Lateran University.
She is the author of numerous publications regarding in
particular the themes of life, marriage and family.
She knows English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.
Ghisoni was born in Cortemaggiore, Piacenza in 1965, she is
married and the mother of two daughters.
She obtained the Vordiplom in philosophy and theology at the
Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen (1991); a doctorate in
Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University (1999); a
diploma as Rotary lawyer from the Studium rotale of the Tribunal
of the Roman Rota (2002) and the diploma in administrative
practice at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments (1994).
At the Tribunals of First Instance and Appeal of the
Vicariate of Rome, she has worked as a notary (1997-1999),
Defender of the Bond (1999-2002), auditor (2002-2005) and judge
(since 2005); at the Holy See she has served as Judge of the
Tribunal of the Roman Rota (2003-2009), member of the Commission
for the Defence of the Bond in the causes of the annulment of
unconsummated marriage at the Congregation for Divine Worship
and the Discipline of the Sacraments (2006-2011) and, since
November 2011, at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
From 2013 to 2016 she collaborated with the Pontifical
Council for Laity in the field of specialist laity studies in
the Church.
She is currently a judge at the Tribunal of First Instance of
the Vicariate of Rome, professor at the Faculty of Canon Law of
the Pontifical Gregorian University, and lecturer in the
Department of Law of the University Roma Tre.
She is the author of scientific publications on canon law.
Pope appoints 2 women in dicastery
Both married with children