The recent reduction of state income-tax rates is the latest chapter in a multi-decade effort by fiscal conservatives to advance pro-growth economic policies and improve Arkansas' competitive position versus other states.
Speaking during the ceremony, where he concelebrated with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and the Papal Nuncio Archbishop Jude Okolo, Dr Farrell acknowledged that he was coming to Dublin “knowing very few of you”.
The Westmeath native, who was Bishop of Ossory prior to being appointed to Dublin, also admitted there was “no pre-packaged plan to address the reality in which we find ourselves”.
The 66-year-old said the only viable pastoral plan for the future will be one which comes from genuine dialogue and discernment between the people, clergy and religious.
The Church of the future wouldhave to be a synodal church or it would not be at all, he said. It would have to be “a Church that listens to the faithful people of God, the priest, the bishop, the Holy Father, all listening to each other, all listening to the Holy Spirit , he said.