VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the ...

Farrell, a former Bishop of Dallas, holds the position of “camerlengo” (or chamberlain) which tasks him with “overseeing and administering the temporal goods and rights of the Apostolic See ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election ...

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 ...

Cardinal Farrell was appointed Camerlengo - or key keeper - of the Holy Roman Church by Pope Francis in February 2019. He will perform a crucial role during the current "sede vacante" period when ...

According to tradition, the camerlengo certifies the pope’s death, seals the papal apartment and breaks the pope’s fisherman’s ring, as a symbol of a vacancy at the Holy See.