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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 doesn't criticise russia explicitly. i think thatis criticise russia explicitly. i think that is going to annoy some people. we should remember he doesn't 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 path where some would say no middle path is appropriate. we should also remember and ask the question...

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Moet internal and public. this az idivide and conquer strategy. what they're 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. >> let's talk to the church side. sarah, this was certainly an emotional and graphic campaign, as irin is talking about here. national groups and hundreds of thousands of dollars pouring in advertising-wise. is it possible that this could beco...

Progress that you're seeing from catholics on this, especially given the direction that we're seeing with the new progressive attitude that's coming out of vatican city and pope francis? >> yeah, we've 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 don't want to hear about these kinds of issues in the homily during mass, at their ministries. they want to be able to vote their consciences and will vote against this ban today. >> irin carmon and sarah hutchison, thanks ...