President of Mongolia Meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received the President of Mongolia, Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
Cardinal Giorgio Marengo: Life as a Missionary in Mongolia
EWTN interviews Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, one of the world’s youngest cardinals, about serving as a missionary in Mongolia, where Catholics make up less than 1% of the population.
Interview: Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbataar, Mongolia
The Good Newsroom sat down with the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, to hear about his lifelong work as a missionary and the work that is just beginning in this Central Asian country.
Marengo: the youngest from Asia, missionary ‘pilgrim and guest’ in Mongolia
A 50-year-old Piedmontese, pastor of a community of just 1,400 Catholics in an immense land where the Gospel was proclaimed only 30 years ago, brings to the conclave the breath of the most extreme missionary frontiers of the Catholic Church.
Pastoral Letter 2025
The pastoral letter with which I usually address you, dear brothers and sisters, priests, religious men and women of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar, comes this time with the year already begun. However, I would like to reach all of you to reflect with you on the time we are living, from a missionary perspective.
Pastoral Letter 2024
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
As we prepare to live a new year of grace in the Lord, we still have in our eyes and hearts the days of Pope Francis’ visit to our country. How blessed we have been by this rare and important event! It is precisely so that his words – as well as his gestures – may descend deeply into our consciences and inform our pastoral and missionary choices that I propose not my own personal reflection, but to return to what the Successor of St Peter said to us on 2 September 2023.
“Look to Him and you will be radiant”
The verse from Psalm 34 was chosen as the episcopal motto by Bishop Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, who was created Cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of August 27, 2022.
Cardinal in Mongolia Dreams of Establishing a Catholic Monastery to Advance Evangelization
Amid the country’s modest religious revival, Cardinal Marengo shares his missionary predecessor’s dream and thinks that the establishment of the first contemplative Catholic monastery in Mongolia “would be the way to evangelize more effectively.”
Pastoral Letter 2023
“Mary, for her part, kept all these things, pondering them in her heart” (cf. Lk 2:51). In Luke’s Gospel, the Mother of the Lord is presented to us in this way, as the guardian of all that was happening in the life of her Son Jesus. We too would like to start from this inner attitude of attention to the Lord present in our lives, as we begin a new pastoral year. The year 2022 has given us the gift of gratitude for the ecclesial journey that began thirty years ago, thanks to the sacrifice of the first CICM missionaries, especially our first, beloved bishop, Bishop Wenceslao Padilla.
Pastoral Letter 2021-2022
Very dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
I turn to you with trepidation. I am sending you this letter on the day of Mary, the Immaculate Conception. She is our guide, our beacon, our most tender Mother who knows all our anxieties and our desires. I entrust these reflections to her, so that she may be the one to help us in our faith.