sentences:  On September 1, 2016, he was appointed the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.He was created a cardinal on November 19, 2016, by Pope Francis.In July 2018, revelations that Farrell's mentor and former Archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, was guilty of abusing many young seminarians and priests over several decades brought calls in countless American publications for Farrell to clarify whether he knew of the allegations and did nothing.