I think you'd need an additional POD of some eastern country (Poland?) going in the reformation and then getting holy sanction as part of the deal.How about the Mongols converted to Nestorianism under Mongke Khan, and eventually the Mongolian Church of the East reaches communion with the Holy See?
What?if all the Christians in South Korea were Catholic, you're over halfway there
Over halfway to 50 percent, which is a majority. What objection do you have?
The plurality of South Koreans are not religious. Even if all Christians were Catholics they would be less than a third of the South Korean population.
Have you actually read my link.
That's why I said they'd be halfway to fifty percent i.e. over twenty-five percent.
That's why I said they'd be halfway to fifty percent i.e. over twenty-five percent.
Propaganda Fide said:Do not act with zeal, do not put forward any arguments to convince these peoples to change their rites, their customs or their usages, except if they are evidently contrary to the religion [i.e., Catholic Christianity] and morality. What would be more absurd than to bring France, Spain, Italy or any other European country to the Chinese? Do not bring to them our countries, but instead bring to them the Faith, a Faith that does not reject or hurt the rites, nor the usages of any people, provided that these are not distasteful, but that instead keeps and protects them.
Korean Christians are extremely active, so I guess it kinda counts as being a majority.
Korea as a Catholic country is an interesting concept. I do wonder the possibility of the Catholic Church being more active in helping in the independence movement.
Korea as a Catholic country is an interesting concept. I do wonder the possibility of the Catholic Church being more active in helping in the independence movement.
Pius XII eventually oversaw an acceptance of the ancestral rites (AIUI, more or less along the lines the Jesuits advocated at the time), so it's definitely not impossible - then again, the 1930s aren't the 1700s.
As for an actual Chinese Rite Catholicism (like the Eastern Catholic churches), that'd definitely be an interesting beast. I wonder what the liturgical colors would be like.
What do you mean by liturgical colors? Is it like the jackets the various personnel on a carrier flight deck wear to identify their role?
Someone more familiar with Chinese culture will have to comment on the interpretation of Catholic liturgical colors (for that matter, I don't know which colors were used and when in the 18th century - presumably black, white, red, green, violet and rose?).
I can see the priests dressed in black robes like scholars, with belts colored to correspond to the seasons. Maybe the holidays will be moved to correspond to the Chinese calendar to somehow relate to existing Chinese holidays.