Native American Catholic Church

The religious views of the Southwest Colonies and New England colonies hugely contrasted. The dominant religion in Spain at the time was Catholicism. Catholicism gave the Spaniards a common identity and allowed them to explore much faster than the English who were experiencing a religious civil war at the time. So the Spanish went over to spread Catholicism. “ The Franciscans and

However towards the end of the document he starts realizing that the Indians have every right to reject Christianity and wage war against the Spanish, and at the end he even goes as far as to say that the Spanish invasion was wrong. Now when you look at how did this affect the Native Americans you see that it demolished their entire religion, it made them live by a code they didn’t believe in, and it you see Christianity basically took away their land and killed them all.

Rulers opposed papal power because the canon laws that restricted things the rulers were allowed to do with churches within their kingdom. They would have to get approval from the pope before they did certain things. This forced them to have to make compromises where secular and religious claims coincide.

Slavery, like Portugal, was crucial for Spain. Unlike Portugal Spain used Native Americans as their slaves. (Mainly because of geography) Spain also believed in Encomienda. Which is basically there way of “giving back” to Native Americans, they would teach Native Americans their religious views and in return Native Americans would be forced to work to death. So it would appear that converting people (slaves) to Catholicism was an important reason why they went to the “new world”. Needless to say relations between Spain and the Native Americans spoiled just like the relationship between Portugal and Africans did. A lot of Native Americans believed that Spain gave them nothing. Most if not all of Spain’s economy was based on mining silver and gold and sugar plantations. At the time of this colonization and for the next 200 years Spain is extremely rich.

Spain’s goal of spreading Catholicism was undoubtable strengthened when the Pope sanctioned all Spanish efforts. Thus, slavery of Native Americans was justified, and would liberate them in the eyes of God. In effort to prevent British protestant influence, Spain declared that Non-Spanish citizens and Non-Spanish Christians were not permitted to settle in their borders.

Since the sixteenth century, the Spanish expanded their religious, Catholicism, to the America and settle their belief into the Native American. During the time period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the religious upheavals caused many changes in the society not only in the America but also some Europe countries. This put a huge impact on the life of people in many countries.

How did the kings attack the church in this period? Contrast these events with ones in earlier ones in which the pope dominated rulers.

They saw themselves as acting in the best interests of these people, bringing them Christianity and civilization. This attitude destroyed traditional beliefs and social values, however, and had a negative effect on colonized populations.” European explorers such as the Conquistadors wanted to convert the indigenous people to Christianity and by doing this they destroyed the culture of the native americans. If you did not convert you were killed and if you chose to convert then you lost touch with your original religion and traditions. Due to the uncompromising behavior of the conquerors religions, traditions and social values of the indians have been lost. European explorers viewed themselves as superior to the indigenous people and by thinking this way they ended up eradicating the diversity of

The church in the Medieval era, however, was incredibly powerful and mostly unopposed. Salvation, to the religious, was and remains the most important aspect of faith. Religion without a fate after death is almost entirely hopeless and borders on nihilistic. The Catholic church used this incessant fear to fuel their political vendettas. This is made evident by the attempted squelching of the Reformation sparked by Martin Luther as well as the expulsion of the Moriscos, Jews, and Protestants from Spain. The church had successfully convinced an entire continent that the only true way to attain eternal life was through the doctrine of the church. This gave the Pope authority, power, and uncontested control over the Christian people, for a

Before the English ventured to Roanoke Europeans explored and settled the New World. The Spanish were the most successful in settling the New World. They conquered most of Central and South America. Their main objective was to convert all of the Indians to Christianity. “Spain’s claim to posses the Americas was based on discovery, conquest, and settlement, but even more important, it was founded on the sacred enterprise of extending the Catholic faith to (in Spanish eyes) “barbarous” native peoples” (Horn 12).

The very reason that Columbus himself sort forth on his voyage was to spread Catholicism. The French saw that they had the potential the trade with them, the English simply wanted the land they occupied, the Spanish saw the Indians as a form of labor, they also believed they could bring the Indians closer to the Spanish god. The Spaniards had a very difficult time converting the natives as their religion was very different from the one that the natives had been practicing. They believed that these “savages” were worshipping devils and they had to be saved. Cortes, forced Christianity upon the Indians and as he “cleansed” the temples of the idols, breaking them in public. Anyone who opposed the conversion was thought to be guided by Satan himself. The ecomienda system as well as the policy of repartimiento were instituted by the Spanish. The Spanish King Ferdinand also passed the Law of Burgos which were lays that said how the Indians were to be treated. He basically said that the Natives either had to choose to convert to Catholicism under their own free will or force will be used against

Before Columbus landed in the West Indies in 1492, The Spanish Inquisition made it known to anyone within Spain’s domain of influence that if a person was not of the Catholic religion, they were to be punished severely and sometimes even fatally. This influence would undoubtedly be brought over to the Americas a century later, as the colonization of the New World would begin by then. While it was very essential for the Spanish (as well as the Portuguese) to improve their economy by using the resources they found in Latin America, it seemed to a number of them as if that was the only reason for being there, or the main reason at the very least. During the Spanish Inquisition and from that point after, it was the Pope’s main goal, to

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The indigenous tribes of North America have much in common with the indigenous religions of Africa but there are also many differences in the belief of an afterlife, supreme deity, and the daily practices of each. Today many of these lesser known religions are hardly ever studied but they exist and are still practiced all over North America and Africa. We will discuss how these religions differ in their main beliefs and practices, and we will also discuss how they correlate with one another on smaller aspects.

The Catholic Church was financially well off from its large presence globally through colonial period of the Americas and thus supported the Spanish Empire, sometimes looking the other way when the Crown and/or its settlers in the New World committed atrocities against the natives. There was an attempt by the Church to “protect” the rights of the natives through laws and other mandates as well as criticizing the enslavement and other mistreatments of the natives during the Spanish Conquest, but still approved of Spanish expansion due to the benefits it reaped. The Catholic Church was vital to the colonization efforts by the Spanish. Those seeking to evangelize, missionaries, sometimes worried more about protecting the Crown’s interests than those of the natives they were trying to