Pope Francis was a trailblazer in the way he included women in important positions in the Catholic Church, Roger Landry told Newsmax on Monday.

Landry, who is national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, told “National Report” that Francis “was a trailblazer. He was a very free man who was capable of doing what he thought was right in every circumstance.”

Some of the ways in which Francis promoted women was that he was the first Pope to appoint a women to head a Vatican administrative office, as well as the first Pope to include women in bishop selection.

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