ULAANBAATAR – On his second full day in Mongolia, Pope Francis met with pastors and missionaries who serve the country’s tiny Catholic flock, telling them not to be concerned with numbers and that God loves littleness.
He also spoke at length of the Catholic Church’s contribution to social initiatives and the spread of values such as solidarity and human fraternity, insisting that governments have nothing to fear from the Church or its representatives.
In his speech earlier today, the Pope noted that the famed Marian statue of Our Lady of Heaven in Mongolia, which is housed in the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul in Ulaanbaatar where the event took place, was found in a landfill.
