Filipino priest becomes Mongolia's first Roman Catholic bishop

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August 29, 2003 1. Ordination ceremony of Wenceslaw Padilla 2. Padilla sitting waiting to be ordained 3. Close up Padilla 4. Members of Mongolian Catholic community at the ceremony 5. Mongolian women 6. Wide ceremony 7. Medium senior Roman Catholic clergy representatives at the ceremony 8. Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe leading the ceremony 9. Padilla taking his vows 10. Faithful in church 11. Padilla kneeling 12. Close Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe giving a ring to Bishop Wenceslaw Padilla 13. Cross on wall of church 14. Close Cardinal Crescezio Sepe placing hat of bishop on Wenceslaw's head 15. Faithful in church 16. Cardinal Crescezio Sepe giving specter (staff) to Wen 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Wenceslaw Padilla, Bishop of Ulan Bator, Roman Catholic Church: ""The people are very susceptible and receptive to what ever new that comes in. New things like fashion, but new ideas also, philosophies, ideologies and with this I think that we can do our work well and I hope the people don't find themselves cheated or deceived by what we can offer them." 18. Padilla giving holy communion to people 19. People queuing up 20. Buddhist nun congratulating Padilla 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Wenceslaw Padilla, Bishop of Ulan Bator, Roman Catholic Church: "Knowing for sure that Mongolia had a very long tradition on the communist regime or the Soviet regime, we just don't know if those ideologies and mentalities will come back stronger in the future." August 30, 2003 22. Wide exterior St Peter and Paul Cathedral in Ulan Bator 23. Priests in front of the cathedral 24. People walking into the cathedral 25. People getting into the cathedral 26. Children singing inside the cathedral 27. Ceiling of the cathedral 28. Nuns 29. Close shot old woman 30. Wide mass in the cathedral 31. Close woman 32. Senior Roman Catholic Church representatives leaving the cathedral 33. SOUNDBITE (English) Giovanni B. Morandini, Papal Nuncio and Vatican ambassador: "With wisdom, openness and personal freedom, they accept this challenge (Mongolian authorities). For them this is a big, big challenge. They give us the religious freedom, which for us is the fundamental. Where you have your religious freedom, you have all rights assured." 34. First mass performed by Bishop Wenceslaw Padilla at the St Peter and Paul Cathedral 35. Bishop Wenceslaw Padilla at mass 36. Wide exterior building of the St Peter and Paul Cathedral STORYLINE: A Filipino priest was installed as Mongolia's first Roman Catholic bishop, leading a Catholic community of less than 200 people in a largely Buddhist nation. Bishop Wenceslaw Padilla was ordained in a ceremony attended by about 1,000 people in the newly built cathedral, St Peter and Paul Cathedral, in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator. The ceremony was led by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, head of the Vatican's missionary arm, and dozens of missionary priests wearing cream-coloured silk robes trimmed in red. Pope John Paul II had considered visiting Mongolia to personally ordain Padilla, but the Vatican dropped that plan last month. Bishop Padilla's work in Mongolia is regarded as important to Vatican missionary work in Asia. Mongolia, a sparsely populated land of 2.5 million people in the steppes of North Asia, has just 179 Roman Catholics. But the country has seen a surge in religious activity since communist rule ended in 1990. Catholic, Mormon and other missionaries have found a ready audience of believers, while Buddhist monks are reviving Mongolia's traditional religion. The mission that started the Catholic Church Mission in Mongolia, is C-I-C-M: an abbreviation of the Latin words meaning the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/458b06e82beb779144e4f1893dbd25b7 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork