Irish-American Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1947)
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An Irish-born cardinal who became the Church's top administrator for lay Catholics, then stepped into a role few see coming: running Vatican City during the brief, strange vacancy between popes.
Kevin Joseph Farrell was born in Ireland on 2 September 1947 and ordained a priest in 1978. He worked as a chaplain and university teacher in Mexico before moving to the United States in 1984, where he spent three decades rising through the American hierarchy — auxiliary bishop in Washington from 2002 to 2007, then Bishop of Dallas until 2017. Made a cardinal in 2016, he was appointed prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life that same year, overseeing the Vatican's engagement with ordinary Catholics worldwide. In 2019 he was named Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the office…
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While the Catholic Church cannot bless unions that are not sacramental marriages, the church will always welcome and accompany everyone, no matter their situation in life.
It is essential and very important that we always open our arms to receive and to accompany all people in their different stages of life and in their different life situations.
I believe that our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has made tremendous progress in the Church, and has changed in many ways the mentality of so many, both clerics and non-clerics.
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