Cardinal Kevin Farrell

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Pope’s trusty ‘Camerlengo’ to run Vatican in wake of Francis’s death

With Pope Francis’s death, the immediate running of the Vatican is now in the hands of one cardinal, Dublin-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell. Known as the Camerlengo, and appointed by the pope, it is he who will lead meetings to determine the date of Francis’s funeral, and supervise other organisational tasks, culminating in the Conclave to […]