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The Guardian // World // Europe

‘A bloke called Kevin from Dublin’: Irish-American cardinal who will run papal conclave

Tuesday 22nd April 2025, 5:38PM

Kevin Farrell rose through the ecclesiastical ranks to be made camerlengo by Pope Francis, whose death has thrust him into the global spotlightThe cardinal who announced the death of Pope Francis bore the ancient Vatican title of camerlengo and spoke in Italian, but there was no mistaking the Dublin accent.Long before he rose through the ecclesiastical ranks and was entrusted with temporarily running the Holy See, Kevin Farrell was an altar boy from an Irish republican family in the working-class suburb of Drimnagh. Continue reading...

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