Because there is really no such thing as a Catholic nation or a Protestant nation. We are living in the post-Christian era.
SO true........
In 1551, Spain founded in Lima, Peru, the first University in America. Spain established public education in America 300 years before the English did it in its territories.
Culturally speaking, Spain gave the very best to America. “The Spanish record of some twenty three colleges and universities in America, graduating 150,000 (including the poor, mestizos, and some Negroes) makes, for example, the Dutch in the East Indies at a later and supposedly more enlightened times, look obscurantism indeed. The Portuguese did not establish a single university in colonial Brazil nor in any other overseas possessions. The total of universities established by Belgium, England, Germany, France and Italy during later Afro-Asian colonial periods assuredly suffers by any fair comparison with the pioneering record of Spain.” (“The Tree of Hate” Philip W. Powell, American historian and professor Emeritus of the University of California in Santa Barbara”)
"The Spanish roots of the Austrian School of Economics can be found in the Spanish Scholastics of the 16th century at the University of the City of Salamanca where economics were taught together with morals and theology, the Austrian School is a truly Spanish school. There, Jesuit father Juan de Mariana had an important role on the development of political and economic thought.”
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Spanish Dominican Friar Francisco de Vitoria, great theologian, philosopher and jurist of the Sixteenth Century, founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of Salamanca, noted especially for his contributions to the theory of just war and international law. He has in the past been described by some scholars as the "father of modern international law". Father de Vitoria taught at universities in Paris, Valladolid and Salamanca.
http://www.ufvinternational.com/en/ufv-about-us/who-was-francisco-de-vitoria/