DALLAS (TX)
Dallas Morning News
Caleb Downs, Breaking News reporter
Pope Francis named former Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell a cardinal Sunday at the end of his Angelus prayer on Sunday at the Vatican.
Farrell and 16 other newly-chosen cardinals–including American archbishops Blaise Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis–will be elevated at a consistory on Nov. 19, the eve of the close to Pope Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy.
Farrell, 69, will be eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor because he is under 80-years-old.
Farrell was recently chosen by Pope Francis to lead the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, a new Vatican department focused on the lives of ordinary Catholics around the world. It is part of the Roman Curia, an administrative body that advises and helps the pope carry out the church’s affairs worldwide.
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