Catholicism in Vietnam if the South survives?

If we just assume that the South's military is a hair more competent, the US doesn't cut off funding, and the launches one more aggressive bombing campaign on the North if it goes back to war with the South and forces the North to the peace table, or something. At this point the North decides the spend the better part of a decade rebuilding and preparing for a future war, but the Communists are falling apart by then internationally and can't back North Vietnam effectively making their goal of conquering the South impossible.

It doesn't have to be exactly like that, but one way or another the North fails to take the South.

How does Catholicism or even Christianity do in general in South Vietnam in all likelihood here? Can it be as successful as in Korea?
 
The situations in Korea and Vietnam were totally different and Christianity became a part of Korean identity in a way it never did in Vietnam due to different colonial experiences. Even when the right-wing dictatorships coopted Christianity in South Korea, there were dissident Christian movements that claimed the religion as their own. Catholicism in Vietnam was seen as foreign and tied to French imperial rule. Ironically a surviving South Vietnam might be bad for Vietnamese Catholicism since you wouldn't have large diaspora communities using it as a basis of social organization to the degree you do IOTL.
 
Even when the right-wing dictatorships coopted Christianity in South Korea, there were dissident Christian movements that claimed the religion as their own.

And, interestingly, while there is now a heavy contingent of evangelical protestants in the conservative camp(exemplified most strikingly by Rhee Syngmann and much later the Lee Myung-bak administration), historically it was the most Buddhist areas of the ROK(ie. the Gyeongsang provinces) which were also the most right-wing.

Catholicism in Vietnam was seen as foreign and tied to French imperial rule.

Whereas in Korea, Christianity eventually took on a resistant character under Japanese rule, partly as a result of Chrristians(mostly Koreans, not missionaries) refusing to participate in state-mandated religious cermemonies exalting the Emperor.
 
Probably it would remain a minority religion like it is in much of Southern Asia. The Korean experience was an exception and not a rule for what happened in Eastern Asia, my guess less than 5% of the population Roman Catholic and declining due to historical relationship with the French, the Vietnamese hate them and the Chinese with a passion.
 
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