You report (The Church in the World, 16 August) the rector of the Pontifical Korean College in Rome as follows: “I have always said that the Korean Church is a lay Church”. He refers to the Korean lay scholar who brought Christianity to Korea from Beijing but fails to mention that in 1786 the first converts celebrated the Eucharist without an ordained priest under the presidency of at least five different leading Korean laymen until the Bishop of Beijing pointed out in 1789 that thi