Cardinal Kevin Farrell Archives

Vatican’s point man on family says Church needs to go positive
- Catholic News Agency, Vatican
- May 9, 2017
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, president of the Vatican’s new Dicastery for Marriage, Family and Life, says that Pope Francis’s document ‘Amoris Laetitia’ will be the basis for the looming World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland.
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New martyrs whose deaths meet the old test of ‘hatred of the faith’
- Global Church
- April 21, 2017
Pope Francis is set to visit Rome’s Church of St. Bartholomew on Saturday to shine a spotlight on the Church’s new martyrs. Yesterday, Crux presented a sampling of new martyrs killed ‘in odium amoris,’ or ‘hatred of love’; today, we look at several new martyrs whose deaths seem to meet the classic test of being killed ‘in odium fidei,’ or ‘hatred of the faith.’
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Top Vatican and U.S. church officials back new gay-friendly book
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- April 9, 2017
Father James Martin’s new book, “Building a Bridge,” includes several blurbs from top figures in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy which is a surprising break from the past. This seems to indicate a sea change during the papacy of Pope Francis.
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‘Amoris’ is much bigger than Communion debate, cardinal insists

March 30, 2017

Pope Francis’s point man on the family said Thursday that by allowing discussion of the pontiff’s document ‘Amoris Laetitia’ to focus narrowly on Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, the Church is playing with fire, because today the family is “under attack” and needs to hear the full range of the document’s teaching.

Cardinal Farrell finds a home at his titular church in Rome

Cardinal Farrell said St. Julian, his new titular church, “encourages us to think about how today, too, there are many laypeople and many young people enthusiastic about their faith, ready to make many sacrifices to be coherent with their faith and to share it with others.”