Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

The 77-year-old Irish-born priest is currently serving as camerlengo, a position which makes him acting head of the Holy See.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell was asked in 2019 by Pope Francis to take on the role managing the Vatican during the ‘interregnum’ ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

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Cardinal Kevin Farrell discusses the unexpected phone call from Pope Francis that led him to become the Vatican camerlengo, a role he hoped never to fulfill. From his beginnings in Dublin and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

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As of April 2025, 137 countries had signed the Rome Statute – indicating their intention to join – while 125 of them had formally ratified it, becoming full member states of the ICC.

FILE - Cargo containers sit stacked as cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at the Panama Canal's Balboa port, operated by the Panama Ports Company, in Panama City, Jan. 31 ...

The legend surrounding the Roman Emperor Nero is that he started a fire that burned most of Rome - and played the fiddle while it was happening. Historians doubt that the story is true ...