Irish-born cardinal entrusted as ‘camerlengo’ running Holy See between popes

The Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another is no-nonsense Irish-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell.

The 77-year-old, born in Dublin, had only been in Rome for a few years, summoned out of the blue from his job as bishop of Dallas, when he was asked by Pope Francis in 2016 to reorganise the Vatican’s laity office.

This was followed three years later, in 2019, by a request from Francis that he take on another role, steeped in myth and mystery but with real-world responsibilities, managing the Vatican as “camerlengo”, or chamberlain, during the often traumatic “interregnum” between papacies and helping to organise the conclave to elect the next pontiff.

Cardinal Farrell recalled in a 2022 interview that he told the Pope he would accept the position, but on one condition, that…

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