Alternative title: What the fuck is with Koreans and cults? I fully endorse and support the CPC and their regulation of religion in the PRC, this shit's fuckin bonkers.

I just learned that Korea's not just home to a protestant cult (moonies and all the familial schismic sects) but also an authentic 21st century catholic heresy.

The "miracle" heresy of Naju occurred when some lady chose to convert while suffering from cancer and started to tell people her mary statue started to cry blood. Her claims grew bigger to also include her receiving the true flesh of blood of Jesus Christ during a communion (as in the cracker and grape juice supposedly turned into literal meat and blood instead of the usual spiritual transubstantiation aka ritualistic symbolism thingy) as well as stigmata wounds spontaneously appearing on her body (places where Jesus got nailed to the cross plus poked with a spear). Obviously with something that big going on that deals with the whole spirit shit they're supposed to be the authority on earth, the catholic church went to poke around and see whats up. Long story short, they said she was full of shit, there's no spiritual shenanigans going on, and that she and her movement must recant their false belief or be branded heretics and formally excommunicated from the church. They gave her 20 years to think about it, and IN FUCKING 2008, just 17 YEARS AGO!, she was excommunicated and was branded along with her entire movement a formal catholic heresy with anyone that attempts to follow her teachings or goes to her shrine in Naju recieving an automatic "Latae Sententiae Excommunicatio" (means triggers automatically when you do the thing considered excommunicatable) meaning you're getting a guaranteed formal censure and title of Heretic from the Catholic Church.

Its fucking awesome we're in the 21st century, the era where we can send people to do tik-tok dances on the moon while bathing the earth in nuclear fire, still has ye olde fuckin catholic heresies.