Farrell will be honored by the charity Catholic Extension at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
the year the pope named him a cardinal he felt “grateful for the holy father’s confidence in me.” But, he added, “I meet this news with mixed emotions. Dallas has been my home for the past 10 years, and it will always be my home. I guess I had psychologically decided this is where I was going to retire, so it quickly became home for me.”
Aside from good Mexican food, he said just before leaving that one of the things he’d miss the most was his ministry to immigrants and Latino residents. “We should not be building walls, we should be building bridges,” Farrell said. “And I think there should be more dialogue. We don’t all have to agree with each other, but we have to talk to each other.”
Although popular among those he has served, Farrell has embraced controversial issues. In 2018, he banned former Irish President Mary McAleese, a supporter of women’s ordination and same-sex marriage, from speaking at a Vatican conference on Women in the Catholic Church. Bishop Kevin Farrell places the book of Gospel on the head of Monsignor Mark Seitz as J. Douglas Deshotel waits at the front of the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.also cited his outspoken “leadership during the Ebola crisis. When a family of Dallas’s Ebola victim needed a place to live as they waited out a tense 21-day incubation period, he made the church’s retreat center in Oak Cliff available.
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