The Church in South Korea

Forwarding to you an interesting article about the Church’s apparent success in South Korea.

(Though I suspect you might find that either of the claims about “Tolerance towards ancestral rites” and “an open attitude toward the other religions” might seem a bit… “off” [for lack of a better word].)

Why would I? There’s nothing wrong with honoring one’s ancestors, nor with tolerance toward other religions. I’m happy that Christ has found a welcome in South Korea. Would that more places were as open to Him.

I’m never sure what to make of it when people write things like this to me. “Of course, *you* will probably think X” when I don’t think X at all. What have I said that would make people suppose that I think the task of the Catholic faith is to go around the world stamping out or imputing the odor of suspicion to ordinary human practices that have a lot of virtue in them? To be sure, honoring one’s ancestors can be a problem if you honor them more than you honor God. But the same could be said of the worship of money, at which we Americans excel. Should I therefore think that anybody who engages in capitalism is a bit “off”?