With his scarlet cassock, white lace surplice and red biretta on his head, he looks like he came out of a film by Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director who has spent two decades portraying cardinals in his movies. 

But that's because the cardinal who walks through the main doors of Saint Thadeus the Apostle Parish on the outskirts of Rome this particular Sunday is quite young. At 48 years of age, Giorgio Marengo is the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. And if he lives to the age of 80, he will have been eligible to vote in a conclave for nearly thirty-two years...

This young Italian cardinal, who is the apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, was in Rome on May 21 to take possession of his "titular" church. During his homily he echoed Pope Francis and insisted that the Church must grow "by attraction, not proselytism". He told his new "parishioners" in Rome that he and his people back in Mongolia are part of "the least visible part of the Catholic Church". He then spoke a few words in Mongolian, for those back in the East Asian country who were following the ceremony live via the Internet. 

Cardinal Marengo is one of the 81 men still under the age of 80 who got their red hat from the Jesuit pope. And on June 2, they officially became part of the two-thirds majority in the 121-member group of cardinals currently eligible to vote in a conclave. 

Many in Rome say that they are all "Bergoglians", meaning they were created cardinals by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (the baptismal and family name of Francis). But what does this really mean? Is it a mathematical assurance that they will elect a new pope that is similar to the the current one from Argentina?