"A Generous Heart and a Closed Mouth"

Trinity College (Dublin) law prof and former dean Gerry Whyte offers this take on the question of evangelization in the wake of the tsunamis:

[A]s an Irish Catholic reared with folk memory of the Great Famine, I would be very nervous about linking the provision of relief for the victims of the tsunami with overt evangelization in case it created the impression that this concrete expression of human solidarity came at a price. Better, in any event, to provide the relief with a generous heart and a closed mouth and to hope that, afterwards, this example might prove thought-provoking for those who witness it.