Bread

1
Bread MortarRoman Catholicism in America

• (Continued)

2
1. From KING FERNANDO of ARAGONTo Ponce de León
(1514)
For the Spanish Conquistadores, GOD is a major
motivator (along with GOLD and GLORY!)
3
2. Bartolomé de Las Casas, Complaint on Spanish
Treatment of Native Americans
4
3. Martyrdom of Friar Luis Cáncer in Florida
(1549)
5
4. Juan de Escalona on Indian Violence (1610)
6
5. Letters from Junípero Serra (1750)
7
6. Letter to the Viceroy from Junípero Serra
(1773)
8
7. Pierre Baird, Letter to his Jesuit Superior
(1611)
JESUIT MISSIONARY JEAN DE BRÉBEUF CARRYING CANOE
WITH HURONS
9
8. Instructions to Prospective Missionaries
(Jean de Brébeuf, 1637)
St. Marys mission, north of Toronto
10
9. James, Cardinal Gibbons, The Church the
Republic (1909)

• Can good Catholics be good Americans?
• Can good Americans be good Catholics?