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Mongolia's Catholics - all 1,450 of them - could be squeezed standing into St. Peter's Basilica dozens of times over and their number is smaller than the congregation of a small parish in some small towns. So why is Pope Francis, 86 and in need of a wheelchair, travelling 8,278 km (5,143 miles) to visit them this week? Essentially, to paraphrase British climber George Mallory's response in the 1920s as to why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, because the Catholics are there.

Responsibility is to make food an instrument of peace again, those who hold responsibility. he doesnt criticise russia explicitly. i think thatis criticise russia explicitly. i think that is going to annoy some people. we should remember he doesnt ignore the suffering of the people of ukraine. we heard him talking about it very explicitly there, those who experience this christmas in the dark and the cold. he seems to be trying to tread some kind of middle path where some would say no middle pat...

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Moet internal and public. this az idivide and conquer strategy. what theyre going to do is focus on later abortions which are rare and difficult and which end up polling poorly. they hope they can turn people out. the anti-choice side has been organizing in the churches. they may be able to pull it off but there has been a concerted effort against them. >> lets talk to the church side. sarah, this was certainly an emotional and graphic campaign, as irin is talking about here. national groups and...

Progress that youre seeing from catholics on this, especially given the direction that were seeing with the new progressive attitude thats coming out of vatican city and pope francis? >> yeah, weve heard from catholics on the ground there in albuquerque. they are not happy that the knights of columbus, that their local catholic hierarchy have been pushing this ban. they dont want to hear about these kinds of issues in the homily during mass, at their ministries. they want to be able to vote thei...