A different era Wang Hsing-ching (pen name: Nanfang Shuo), senior writer for The Journalist and an insightful observer of Taiwan's political and social scene, suggests that there is only limited room for development of Catholicism in Taiwan. This is due to the fact that the Church in Taiwan has long appealed only to certain social strata, and also because of its social conservatism.
不一樣的時代以一枝健筆針砭台灣政治、社會的新新聞週刊總主筆南方朔則認為，天主教發展受限，與他們在台灣的訴求階層和作風保守有關。