For Western Catholics who sometimes despair of keeping the faith in a secularized world or passing it on to their children, Fr. Paul Hwang might offer a bit of perspective: Try it in North Korea sometime.
The country's microscopically small Catholic population--estimated at 3,000 by the government, 800 by the local church--has no resident priest, no access to the sacraments, no possibility of overt catechesis or faith-sharing, and can't even engage in simple gestures such as the ...