41.   Sister Pascal Le Thi Triu, a Catholic nun, said the government and the church will still try to persuade the remaining refugees to return home.

42.   The church has tried to play down politics.

43.   The church has tried to distance itself from the burial, saying some believers still doubt the authenticity of the bones despite repeated DNA testing.

44.   The Post, which broke the scandal, said that Lee denied that the church had tried to pressure the victims to keep quiet by offering them hush money.

45.   But celebration of the Catholic martyrs makes ecumenical dialogue that much harder as the divided churches try to enter the third Christian millennium in restored unity.