The Catholic Church is dominated by men but is making progress on giving a stronger voice to women, representatives of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), an umbrella group of Catholic nuns, said on Wednesday. Pope Francis has appointed a few women in senior Vatican managerial positions, and has for the first time given them voting powers in this month's synod, a bishops' summit discussing church reforms. At the same time, Francis has ruled out opening up the priesthood to women.