The Ways of Confucius and Christ

The Confucianist spirit led me to see the evident superiority of Christianity, and that without regard to the personal shortcomings of Christians—or rather in the very field of human qualities and shortcomings. The Confucianist spirit led me to recognize the superiority, so very plain, of the Holy Roman Church, holding a treasure from which, from century to century, the believer draws riches, ancient and new; a living treasure that, from century to century, increases and bears fruit. At the center of Catholic worship, we find the celebration of a sacrifice of which the august character infinitely surpasses all the sacrifices that, in whatever religion, have sought to express the relations between man and God and to render glory to God.