After the Pope’s death: Irishman rules the Vatican to Conclava

Pope Francis’ demise placed under the lights of the spotlights Kevin Joseph Farrell, an Irishman with American citizenship, who is the Vatican Cardinal Chamberling, summarizes Ansa, RAI News and Sky G 24.

He was born on September 2, 1947. Since 2016, he has led the Vatican’s dicastery (department) for laymen, family and life. Since 2019, Kevin Farrell has been appointed as Vatican Chamberling. In 2022 he headed the Papal Investment Committee, and since 2024 he has been chairman of the Vatican Supreme Court.

Now traditionally, after the Pope’s death, and until a new pope is selected, the ventricle, in this case Kevin Farrell, is a temporary head of the Roman Catholic Church and is responsible for her current cases, including the entire organization of the Pope’s funeral, the procedures around the conclave and the rituals accompanying the new Pope.

Farrell was born in Dublin into a family with a total of four sons. He is the second child in the family. His older brother Brian was also a spiritual person and was secretary of the Papal Council to promote Christian unity in the early 21st century.

Farrell graduated from the University of Salamanca in Spain with a bachelor’s degree in art. He then entered the Papal Gregorian University in Rome, where he graduated from a master’s degree in philosophy. He also has a master’s degree in theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinski. Notre Dame University in Indiana in the United States has a master’s degree in business administration and the title Doctor « Honoris Cause » by law.

Farrell was ordained a priest on December 24, 1978. He later held teaching positions in Mexico and the United States for years. Farrell was then in church positions in the United States in 1984 and 2016. At some point he was Deputy Bishop of Washington and Bishop of Dallas. It was ordained for the cardinal in 2016.

There were also controversies in Farrell’s past. When the scandal was expressed in connection with obscene sexual behavior that involved Washington’s Archbishop Cardinal Theodor McCarick, questions arose as to whether Farrell, who was his deputy in the archbishop of the US capital, did not know about these acts, but he remained.

Farrell declares himself against the ordination of women as priests and against the church blessing for same -sex unions. Over his years, he was also an advocate of the idea of ​​greater control over firearms, which opposed the American arms lobby.

As the Vatican’s Vatican, Kevin Farrell declares the death of the Pope, guides the ritual of confirming the Pope’s demise, seals the papal rooms, destroys the papal ring and seal. The term ventricle dates from a medieval Latin and once referred to the one in the papal yard who was responsible for the pope’s vault and ruled the finances of the Roman Curia. Today, his powers have been expanded, but ventricle cannot make any essential decisions other than those concerning the period without a pope.