[HarleyD]

What a crazy article, from the parts that I read. (I decided not to waste my time.) It should be noted that while the Catholics were enslaving the Incas in Mexico or wandering around looking for the Fountain of Youth in Florida, the Protestants Puritans were busy settling New England.

Catholics did not settle New England.

BTW-If memory serves me correctly, Queen Isabella, the person who sent Christopher Columbus on his journey, was a Reformer.

[Alex Murphy]

What a crazy article, from the parts that I read. (I decided not to waste my time.)

Indeed. The more I read of this Fr. Hardon, the less impressed I am with his thinking.

[Macoraba]

"It should be noted that while the Catholics were enslaving the Incas in Mexico ..."


The Incas are in South America. The Aztecs are in Mexico.

[marshmallow]

It should be noted that while the Catholics were enslaving the Incas in Mexico or wandering around looking for the Fountain of Youth in Florida, the Protestants Puritans were busy settling New England.

"Enslaving" Incas? Incas (Peru), Aztecs and Mayans (Mexico and Central America) engaged in grizzly human sacrifices to their "gods". Whatever excesses the Spanish conquistadors engaged in were no worse than the gruesome pagan practices of those peoples and in the long term , the introduction of Christianity was hugely beneficial. I'd say the Spanish liberated these people.

Had the Puritans landed on the Yucatan rather than New England, they would either have vanished without trace, or had to learn the art of warfare, really quickly.