@Clement Jaeho Chung -Hi Clement! I hope you had a good weekend also. I'm enjoying my vacation after teaching. The school year ended June 17, and we go back the week after our USA holiday called Labor Day in early September.
I agree with everything you said. I hope it's not too sinful to wish that Pope Francis is to frail/sick to travel to Portugal, France and Mongolia. It is laughable that he would go to Mongolia. Mongolia is 95% Buddhist, about 3% Islam, and less than 1% Christian (I think there are not more than 1,000 Catholics in Mongolia). I very much respect Buddhism. I read that there are alot of Protestants (fundamentalists) in South Korea. That is a bad thing, because those people are fanatics and hate Catholics. But I also read that they are declining, which is a good thing.
In Japan, we never had very many Christians. IN the 1580's-90's, it started off well, and by around 1620, there were almost a million Catholics in Japan, all started by the great work of St. Francis Xavier. But then Protestant merchants from the Netherlands and England somehow were recieved by the Tokugawa Shogunate, and turned the Shogunate against Catholics. Already before that, the Shogunate was beginning to be suspicious of the Church and it's growing influence and conversions, but the Protestants spoke so many lies about Catholics and the Shogun believed it, so there were massive persecutions and killings of Catholics. The Church was banned. It really was not allowed back until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, and the Church grew again slowly.....only to collapse again under the heresy of Vatican II. There were about 1.2 million Catholics in Japan in 1960, today there are about 750,000. There are bright spots in the Church in Japan, several good Orders of sisters...but in general, it's the same as in the USA or South Korea....liberal.
Have a good week Clement. Say a prayer for our good Bishop Strickland here in the USA. He's a hero of the Faith. I think Pope Francis will be surprised by the tidal wave of support there will be for Bishop Strickland, and the hatred that will be thrown at the Vatican and at Francis.
But I still think Francis is in his last days. Because of this latest action against good Bishop Strickland and other orthodox and faithful Catholics, I think the Cardinals, realizing how much Francis is hated, will NOT ELECTE ANOTHER FRANCIS.