Pope Francis left a mess

Pope Francis left a mess

At 9.47 a.m. on Easter Monday we heard the words “con profondo dolore” from a cardinal standing in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta. Two hours earlier, Pope Francis “è tornato alla casa del Padre” – “had returned to the house of the Father.” Most people won’t have noticed a curious detail: the cardinal was speaking Italian with a pronounced Irish brogue. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the papal “Camerlengo,” was born in a Dublin suburb. Or, as a tabl…