The Pope's proclamation at the inception of the Republic of China, that the Chinese traditional heritage, including respect for ancestors and Confucius should be respected, gave Catholicism the impetus to spread at an even faster rate.
直到民初，教宗發出訓令，尊重中國的文化傳統，允許中國教徒敬孔祭祖，更使天主教迅速傳播開來。