The following is the transcript of a talk given by Father John A. Hardon, S.J. in 1992
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| First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, after the painting by Discoro Téofilo de la Puebla |
We are addressing ourselves to the subject of The Catholic Discovery of America. This year is the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. It is also the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Christianity in the Western world. It is, finally, the five-hundredth anniversary of the beginnings of the Catholic Church in North and South America.
