Cardinal Kevin Farrell became the acting head of the Vatican after Pope Francis’s death on Monday.
Farrell is the camerlengo of the Catholic Church, acting as a personal appointee of the pope and carrying out “a specific series of functions in the crucial time of transition from one pope to his successor.”
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