Pope Francis follows zero women on Twitter.

The Pope is an active tweeter, and appears not to be running his own Twitter account, he’s rather outsourcing it to someone else. Franciscus has a following of over 9.8 million on Twitter, but only follows 8 accounts. Most of them are himself. All of them really.

All of the accounts that Pontifex follows are men. This does include the @Pontifex_fr. His French account.

Meanwhile, Papa Franciscus follows exactly zero women.

It’s not like Franciscus doesn’t know any women. I mean, there are a lot of christian women in this world.

When contacted about Pontifex’s Twitter followers, a spokesperson emailed The Daily Penguin a statement saying, in part: “Both The Vatican as most of the rest of our churches have no women in leadership positions and throughout the company. Both are not committed to diversity and equal pay for women. Extrapolating anything else from The Pope's Twitter or from the companies’ choice to not participate in an unscientific opt-in diversity survey would be pretty specious and misleading to your readers.”

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