We would lose our Latin for an eye. But if all these men in red are similar in clothing, none are identical. A great variety, on the contrary, because they almost represent the world in miniature, and through them the Church in its most extreme situations. Indeed, Francis likes to choose his cardinals from the most remote or tense regions of the world.
The youngest of this class of 2022 cardinals, for example, is from Mongolia. On paper, he would be an ordinary parish priest if we rely only on the 1,500 believers he follows, adding two Mongolian priests and about twenty missionaries. But Giorgio Marengo, a 48-year-old Italian born in Piedmont, still held the position of apostolic prefect of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, equivalent to a bishop. Sent as a young priest to this country without Catholics, he eventually founded a parish from scratch in Arvayhir in the center of the country in 2000. There are…
Source: Le Figaro
