[He, man] "The dog who cannot bark is useless" The bishop of the little ones

#1
I didn't hope for Nangok. The greetings of the priests belonging to the parish are the full authority of the headmaster, and it was the will of Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan that he was appointed as the chief priest of the Nangok-dong Cathedral. On August 15, 1985, Kang Woo-Il was appointed as the 3rd chief priest of Nangok-dong Cathedral in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul. Since becoming a priest in 1974, he has worked as a secretary for Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan, Director of Education of the Archdiocese of Seoul, and Director of Public Relations at the Myeong-dong Cathedral, except that he has shortened the life of the throne bride at Myeong-dong Cathedral and Junglim-dong Cathedral. Nangok was the first parish as his priest.

Nangok was the town where the highest and lowest people in Seoul lived. At that time, elementary schools in Nangok were classified as special schools. The specialty school refers to a school with poor working conditions, and teachers can get extra points when they work at such a school, so they can go where they want in the next greeting. Schools on the remote or remote islands and branch schools were mainly included, but schools in Nangok were classified as the worst schools among the special schools. Although in downtown Seoul, Nangok was a remote place in our society. The April 2001 JoongAng Ilbo <Nangok Report> describes the Nangok at that time.

"The blue common toilet on the top of the mountain. An alleyway with an average slope of 35 degrees where a fire truck cannot go up. A neighborhood store that mainly sells only Suzhou and Ramen. A street sign in the 1970s with the old Samsung Electronics logo still on. Place to write"


It was 16 years before Kang Woo-il went to Nangok, so at that time, Nangok was a scene of poverty that is hard to imagine. All the conflicts and contradictions in this world were gathered in Nangok in the form of poverty. Nangok had no quiet day. It was always noisy as people playing evil carts, and every day a song sounded, and a fight fought somewhere. Someone was bleeding, someone was raising the blood, and someone was lonely and turned to the world without anyone taking care. At the time of jurisdiction over Nangok, the number of cases handled by the South Korean police station was always first in downtown Seoul. Although there was sharing, ties, and recognition of the poor, it was a scene of a boiled life, so the scenery of the same hell spread out from time to time. I asked if it was difficult for me to live like that, and he answered calmly.

"It was not difficult. I went to the town with believers happily there. I never felt difficult."


I wondered if it was a little difficult, but I brought up the story of Father Charles de Foucault. Father Charle de Foucault was a man who entered the villages of Aboriginal people in northern Africa and lived the same as them and practiced the faith of Christ in words, not words. <The Little Brotherhood of Jesus> is a religious order to imitate him and testify of faith by living with the most difficult people at the bottom of the world.

"Before I graduated from Roman Urbano and received a priestly ordination, I tried to feel the spirituality of Father Foucault for over a year, with the brothers of Jesus' Little Brotherhood, the Native American Villages of North Africa, the Spanish Slums, and the bottom of the society in factories in Japan. We stayed together."

So the poor life wasn't unfamiliar or fearful, but rather it was good to be with difficult people. I made such a story as if I was talking about someone else. There were few modifiers in words as much as in his writing. Temperance was in everything.

Because of this flirty young bride, it would not have been one or two of the fluttering breasts, and the navy would have overflowed all over the soundtrack. The grandmother's believers would have said this in a low voice, holding hands with a son-in-law priest. 'Think of all the girls as foxes with nine tails.' The young people of Nangok would have laughed at the door of the cathedral in hopes that this priest could find hope, and the people who had been desperately saying that there was one thing or another since the world of this filthy man would have awkwardly touched his hand.


His ambitious challenge to live with the best of Jesus in the lowest part of the world ended in just four months. It wasn't his choice. On January 4, 1986, the Vatican promoted him to be a bishop and appointed him as assistant counselor to the Archdiocese of Seoul. The head priest of the parish has a term of five years. For at least 5 years, the promotion of the bishop was a bit of a news for Kang Woo-il, who thought he would eat the same clothes and wear the same scent and smell the same as people here.

"I told the Vatican that I wasn't the right person for that position. Then the story was to tell Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan. I told Cardinal Kim "I can't be the bishop's lumber." I said I can't see it.' I had no choice but to accept it."

Kang Woo-il's successor, also appointed in February 1986, left Korea in six months after studying abroad. The people of Nangok had to watch two priests leave during their tenure in just a year.

"Wouldn't we think that people can come and go easily and leave a difficult song that they can escape from?" When asked, "They could have thought so."

In this passage, it is necessary to read some of the cardinals that Cardinal Kim Su-hwan wrote in 2009.

"There was one hope that the Cardinals had cherished from a young age. It was to live with them at the same eye level beside them as to teach the gospel to the poor and helpless. It's getting harder and harder, so you're living at the bottom of your soul with a greater debt to yourself than anyone else."

Although he is talking about Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan, it is actually about himself. Nangok has long been a debt to his heart. Although it was a parish priest life in less than 5 months, exchanges with the people I met at the Nangokdong Cathedral continued for decades.

#2 In
2012, his father Kang Young-wook's funeral mass was very impressive. Kang Woo-il calmly and calmly recalls his father's life. Neither sadness nor excess. It is a voice that seems to be beyond sadness.
Kang Young-wook was an elite college graduate from Japan during the Japanese colonial era. After working with civil servants and soldiers, he did a variety of projects, including briquetting plants and frozen fishery. Having lived 39 years in Korea, 32 years in Japan, and 20 years in the United States, and moved 32 times throughout his life, Kang's life was the life of a pilgrim.

Although his father's business had been upset, Kang Woo-il's family was not that of the ordinary people of his day. His grandfather, Kang Se-hyun, was the great landlord of Hapcheon, Gyeongnam, and his grandfather, Oh, Wi-young, was the political tycoon who served as the trust bank chief and third-ranked lawmaker. When Kang Woo-il entered Gyeonggi High School, Oh Wi-young was the minister of the scene cabinet. In addition, his aunt Oh Hyun-joo was Miss Korea Jean in 1959. His family was a very famous family.

In 1963, when Kang Woo-il graduated from Gyeonggi High School, the family of Kang Woo-il immigrated to Japan. It was when he was 18 years old. He explained that his father's frozen fishery was hit directly by the Typhoon Saraho in 1959, and that the new military regime interfered with the incident, so he could not afford to live in Korea and went to Japan. While preparing for college in Japan, I decided to become a bride after thinking about how to live a life with only one life, and I entered the University of Jochi, Japan, established by the Jesuits. Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan, who left the university, is an alumni. His choice was also the eldest choice for a family who had kept the Catholic faith for the fourth generation.


#3
The first half of his life is dramatic storage, but the second half is a continuation of doubling. He became a bride at 30 and became a bishop at 41. There was an example when Archbishop Lee Moon-hee became 37 years old and Cardinal Jeong Jin-seok became 39 years old.

In 1998, when Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan resigned from Seoul Archdiocese after 30 years, the most influential successor was Kang Woo-il. This was because Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan was the most trusted and sponsored person. The Pope's decision was not as expected. At the time of Jeong Jin-seok, the headmaster of Cheongju became the head of the Seoul Archdiocese.

In 2001, when Kang Woo-il was appointed as the second representative of the Seoul Archdiocese, people interpreted that the succession work to the next parish began. It is considered to be a preparation process to succeed Cardinal Jeong Jin-seok, who is just 71 years old and is still young. But again, the Pope's choice was different. In August 2002, less than a year after being appointed as the deputy general manager of the Seoul Archdiocese, Kang Woo-il was appointed as the head of the Jeju Diocese.

"I was surprised. I wasn't disappointed, but I couldn't imagine that I would go to Jeju. I didn't even think about it in my dreams. At the time, I thought it would be nice to continue working as an assistant bishop of Seoul Archdiocese, although I thought a little differently."

I ate water again at the greeting of the head of the Seoul Archdiocese, so I didn't express it, but it would have hurt. He might have wanted to ask why I should go to Jeju, but he was obedient. It did not end the trial. Whenever the Vatican announced his cardinal appointment, his name was nominated as a leading candidate. In 2014, while working as President of the Pope Francis of the Republic of Korea, the expectations for his cardinal appointment increased, but his name was not shown on the list of new cardinals. Pope Francis, who listens to the voices of the poor, has a similar tendency to see his potential, and as a result it was a vain expectation. The head of the Seoul Archdiocese and Cardinal Cardinal, who seemed like Kang Woo-il, were once occupied by the secretary-general of Seoul, Yeom Soo-jung, who worked under him.

#4
He became a bishop early, but his presence was not great for those outside the church. When I was president of the first Catholic University, my name was a little known. I have never joined the Justice Realization Altar and have rarely spoken on social issues.


"(I didn't make such a social statement (before I came to Jeju). First, I wasn't actively speaking as a bishop of the throne. I agreed with the basic intentions of the priests of the Justice and Realization Altar, but in the course of fighting the dictatorship power, this one side resembles them. I saw. The methodology of their resistance made it difficult for me to be happy to join."

In his 20-year history at Myeong-Dong Catholic Cathedral, borrowing his expression,'I saw all kinds of arrogance and went through all the stellar things.' It was said that there were some acts of dictatorship symbolized by police, security officers, and security officers in the arrogant and stellar affairs he suffered, but that there were also arrogance and self-righteousness to do anything with the flag of justice and conscience. That's what made him pretty hard.

Another reason was to refrain from social remarks at that time.

"Because Father Charles de Foucault, who I wanted to resemble forever, I wanted to testify of the Lord's life with my body, not with my mouth, I thought it wasn't right for me to speak a lot. I didn't speak well... It was also a time when there were a lot of people to say even if I wasn't."

After going to Jeju Island, he began to make his voice. As the bishop of the little ones, they represented the understanding of the little ones from the standpoint of the little ones. In the fight to protect the flock that he had to take care of, he never stood back. Neither compromise nor concession.

When digging mountains and rivers across the country for the Four Rivers project, they drove wildly as'theft', and for those who want to build a second airport on Jeju Island, why should we be driven out of the land for your convenience? Digging' was refuted. When the progressive government tried to build a military base in Gangjeong, Jeju, it was asked why our lives should be threatened for your peace.

Why did he change when he came to Jeju Island, who said that social remarks are not mine and not right for me? What made him open his tightly closed mouth?

"It's Jeju 4.3. It was just terrible when I was on the land, but when I came here and studied, it was terrible. It may be small compared to the Holocaust who massacred the Jews, but the essence is that it is a crime by the state." It was the same, but no one was responsible and no one was apologetic."

He continued. It was calm, the voice was not raised, and it was still boring. Still, when I talked about this, I felt an invisible force.

"When it comes to building a naval base in Gangjeong Village, the army that committed the terrible thing at the time of 4.3 was throbbing loudly and trampled upon Jeju again. At this time, if I stayed still, what would the church do later in history?" I thought I'd hear."

So, he explained,'I have no choice but to speak.' When the Yemeni refugee case seeking refuge in Jeju Island broke out, he exclaimed that we were the only ones and provided refugees with food and food. When the Constitutional Court decided to disband the United Progressive Party at 8:1 in 2014, the constitutional decision was blamed for the dark age of injustice, oppression, condemnation, and rage. In both cases, the majority opinion was that the refugee was deported and the constitutional decision was good, but he was not afraid to stand on the side of those who were lonely and hard with the conscience of the believer.

The profits from the development will eventually be the responsibility of those who have it, so we asked why we should take the damage for those who have it. For the majority, he does not hide his anger over the claim that the few have to endure, or that if one sacrifices and ninety-nine are happy, one sacrifice is inevitable. He lent his name where he needed it, his position where he needed it, and prayed unceasingly for those who needed his prayer. Before the difficult people came to the cathedral, they first went to the scene of their lives, and sometimes they did not hesitate to go to the battle.

Life in his Jeju is reminiscent of the intense life of Jesus of Nazareth 2,000 years ago. It is as if my father's house is not a place to make money, and it is like a crushing of the throne of the Temple of the Four Rivers. The warning that the construction of the second airport is about to dig a grave reminds me of Jesus wielding and wielding it. . At that time, the figure of Jesus crying out to the intellectuals and priests as the children of vipers and whitewashed tombs, and people who pray silently saying that they do not know whether or not a person dies or not, are only a professional who sell religion and sell it. It resembles his appearance.

"I lived in the dust pit of the tear gas in Myeong-Dong Cathedral for more than 20 years. I was surprised when Jeju was released, but I thought that God now gave me a reward vacation to go to Jeju and live comfortably. But I didn't live here. It was a serious battlefield. It was a battlefield that I never thought of or experienced in Seoul. Nowadays, I think that God has sent me to Jeju."


#5
His words often crossed the fence of the church and came over to Jeju Island to land. Following Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan, the two Cardinals, Jin Jin-seok and Yeom Soo-jung, who became the heads of Seoul's archdiocese, resigned from the social agenda or stopped at a ritual level. He never said something different from his own thoughts, but he also felt the pressure of whether his voice was too loud or not.

"It's not a style that I don't like to be with, but I'm impressed by the life of Father Charle de Foucault who lived in the Sahara Desert and wanted to live like him. I was forced to speak because I was the chair of the bishop."

During the conservative regime, he was a regular customer in the media. He was on a small island called Jeju, but his voice did not stay in Jeju. It is true that the media summoned him intensively, but he also did not hesitate to speak to society. If you receive a bishop's ordinance, there is a part that you have to shout out to the whole world, not just your own diocese.

He, the head of the smallest parish, mirrored the face of the Korean Catholic Church, and he was seen as the representative of more than 5 million Korean Catholics, the bishop of the parish with 70,000 believers. Perhaps it was because of the position of the bishop's chairman, but sometimes the weight of his remarks and the size of his seat seemed to be out of balance. The chairman of the bishopric, the highest resolution of the Catholic Church of Korea, is elected by anonymous secret ballot, so-called pope election, to represent the bishopric, but it is ambiguous to say that he is not the senior of other bishops but a representative of the Korean Catholic Church.

It was for this reason that the more frequent and loud the voice, the greater the voice of dissatisfaction and criticism. Criticism has also been made in the church about whether he is taking over the authority of the bishopric or whether he is using the name of the bishopric for social remarks. Some even accuse him of being a slave to the North Korean priest, the Red Satan.

The oppressed looked at the Catholic Church when it was difficult. I wanted to get comfort there, seek strength, and sometimes take a break there. As the Catholic Church, where Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan was, in the 70s and 80s, did, he longed for the church to reach out to them. However, the atmosphere of the church was different. In the Myeong-Dong Catholic Church, called the Holy Land of Democratization, farmers were also kicked out, and few churches were neglecting the helping hand they delivered.

The objection is also difficult. In the 70s and 80s, during the anti-dictatorship democratization period, when justice and injustice were so obvious, it was a natural duty for the Catholic Church to embrace those who resisted the unjust powers, but it is not the time now. This is not a time when good and evil are in conflict, but a situation in which different values ​​of progress and conservative confront each other. Conservative and progressive are only differences in thought, and one side is completely excluded and one side cannot control justice. . There is also an opinion within the church that it is not right for the church to act only as a barrier to progress.


His position on this is solid. When justice is not established and falsehood and evil prevail, the silent priest then quotes the 7th-century pope saying that the shepherd who is supposed to protect the flock is like a barking dog, urging the social remarks, criticism, and further resistance of the priests.

"If you don't care who's the poor today, who's the prisoner, who's being oppressed and who's locked in front of you, it's not true love of Jesus if you shout out that we love each other in a small community" <Christmas Eve 2014>

#6
2009 The winter funeral of Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan in the winter of this year was a majestic ritual for the name of the giant of our time. At the pinnacle of the ceremony was Kang Woo-il's memorial. His memorial service was easy to understand. Words that could be used to commemorate a person's death were mobilized everywhere. For example, this expression.

"I knew there were a lot of fans admiring Cardinal," but "
If you're enough for a Cardinal like this
, " "Lord, couldn't we stop now? Please, Cardinal, please take a rest now."

It may be said that it is disrespectful, but Kang Woo-il wrote this with confidence. You can't use this expression unless you have absolute trust and affection for the deceased. Chudosa naturally shows that he was taking care of Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan's condition every day, as if his son was caring for his father. The human figure of Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan, who was seen during the fighting, is naturally revealed in the language of simple folklore. The phrase that I wanted to do it with your own strength as much as the bowel movement, but that the last ego had to give up reminded me that Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan was a little human being who was no different from us, and the whole people could once again deeply relate to the life of Kim Soo-hwan.

Chumisa's white rice is the last sentence that says, "Well, Kang Woo-il, who has cherished a lot, greets." In this single sentence, you can see how special the two people were personally and how deep the affection and faith that humans can share. It is not easy to show this pain of separation in the face of a farewell that has separated death.

"If both of you have a drink, then Cardinal Kim would have said,'Hey Wooil or Yoo Kangwooil'?"

It was a relationship called and so called, and I thought Kang Woo-Il could have expressed such expressions in the solemn and focused eyes and ears of all the people.

"It's true that you treated me like a son, but when you are embraced by the church, you use honorifics. You haven't just called me."

In any case, it became clear that the actual first resident of the national funeral mourning by the people who came through this memorial service was Kang Woo-il, not others. He is a person who knows the power of horses.

#7
Another example that he knows the power of horses is the use of the word religion. Although many people call the head of the Catholic Church the Pope, he stubbornly uses the word obedience. The term ``religion'' was used before, and it means that it is the best of the church, so it is not very wrong, but the words are different and different. The meaning of the emperor of the church and the word of the church are different from the beginning. Kang Woo-il once said this to new bishops.

"As the church grew older and bigger, there were practices and customs. The church had wisdom, but stubbornness. The early church had no priests and bishops. Only the words brothers and friends were written. There were people who misunderstood and misrepresented the nature of the church as it is now. You have to work to uncover the wrong exterior of the church."

<Memorial Meeting for Bishop Lee Han-taek of Yukyung Village>