Nahnews,  in their article on the plight of North Korea, was very hard  on the Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole. We  recite daily:  "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,"  but how this is lived  out in the daily lives of Christians is not readily seen. Is this a sign  of our inertia? So begins the article on their website.
There  are over 5 million Catholics in Korea, but the writer asks what have  they done? If there were 500 sacks of salt  stored in warehouses, and  the salt was not used for the purpose intended, those who pass the  warehouse would wonder greatly. The government is now buying rice from  the farmers and has so much that it has to store it in warehouses  using the citizens' hard earned money. This is not something that can be  seen with indifference.  Our brothers and sisters in the North are  dying of hunger, and we have rice piled high in warehouses, a sign,  according to Nahnews, of the meanness and pride of the South. How will  heaven punish us. This  is a worry and a shame.
The article  mentions a survey that determined that the number of  Christians in the  National Assembly and those who are high ranking civil servants in the  government make up two thirds of the assembly. The Protestants in the  Natonal Assembly number 118, 40 percent of the total, and Catholics  number 78, 26 percent of the total.
When the Christians in the National Assembly say," Your will be done  on earth as it is in heaven" are they seeing the conditions of the  country correctly? Or are  Christian members Christian only when voting  time comes around? The writer knows some assembly men who are daily  Mass-goers and exemplary Catholics,  but they show themselves  differently in the assembly. Why is this? How will God look upon this?
He  concludes by focusing on Catholics, mentioning that if  the many lay groups in the Church would take the words "God's will be  done on earth as it is in heaven" seriously. even though the 5 million  are not all participating Christians, it would make a big  difference in  doing away with the discord and bias in society. However, if the  Catholics are only outwardly Christian then having all that rice in our  warehouses leaves us open to criticism.
Recent  reports say the   government is planning to ship rice to the North, news that will make many happy.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/korea/2010/09/18/272967/North-Korea.htm
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