Cardinal Giorgio Marengo of Mongolia, who will welcome Pope Francis to his adopted country in just over a month’s time, has stressed the importance of the papal visit to the country’s small Catholic population.
In an interview with AsiaNews, Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, the retired Salesian archbishop of Guwahati, reflected on contemporary India and called for greater respect for the nation’s 1950 constitution, which recognizes the right to religious freedom.