Title: Women in Vatican City - Wikipedia
Headings: Women in Vatican City
Women in Vatican City
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Female residents
Vatican City citizens
Value of women
Clothing
Voting rights
Divorce
Abortion
Donne in Vaticano
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Content: Members of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, which forms the legislature of Vatican City, are appointed by the Pope. The Pope, who serves as the head of state, is elected by the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church. The College is part of the Holy See, which forms a separate sovereign entity from Vatican City. Cardinals in the Catholic Church are required to be male, with voting Cardinals generally always Bishops, and only men are eligible to be elected Pope. With that being said, however, the cardinalate is a privilege and office bestowed by the Pope; it is not a separate, fourth degree of Holy Orders, along with deacon, priest, and Bishop, though it ranks above them, so theoretically, the laws could be amended to allow for women to be Cardinals, though that is currently very unlikely. Divorce
Vatican City is one of two sovereign states that do not allow divorce, the other being the Republic of the Philippines. Abortion
See also: Abortion and the Catholic Church
Vatican City is one of five countries worldwide where abortion is illegal (the others being Malta, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Nicaragua ), as the state adheres to the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Cannon 1398 states that abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy an embryo, blastocyst, zygote or foetus is morally unacceptable.