It was near midnight, in a storm, on a dirt road in the middle of Mongolia. Still, the river seemed manageable. My cousin Cole Paullin and I were searching for a place to camp, and I was exhausted from a long day of fording streams in our rented four-by-four truck. “Seems fine,” I said. …
Pope Francis will make his 43rd apostolic trip to Mongolia from August 31 to September 4, the Holy See Press Office reported on June 3. But what exactly is he going to do there? “By accepting the invitation of the President of Mongolia and the country’s ecclesiastical authorities, Pope Francis will make an apostolic trip …