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Christopher Columbus, The Catholic
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Talk 2
(Presented 4-24-92 at St.
John Vianney in Northlake, Illinois)
Hundreds of biographies of Christopher Columbus have been written in the last
five centuries. They range from the poetic to the highly critical. As a result,
it is not always easy to identify the real Columbus from the person who is responsible
for discovering the New World.
Our purpose here is not to sift through this library of Columbus biographies.
It is simply to show that Columbus was not only a good man. He was extraordinary.
He was the instrument of extraordinary grace. This, then, is our focus in this
chapter. It is to see how God used a very human, human being, whose faith enabled
him to achieve what most writers on Columbus do not recognize. It is one thing
to say that Columbus discovered America. It is something else to realize that
he opened the door to the most phenomenal spread of Christianity since the time
of St. Paul.
There are those who say that Christopher Columbus died a saint. Certainly the
sufferings he experienced, especially from those to whom he was most devoted,
chastened his heart and brought him close to God before he entered eternity.
One thing we can say: his phenomenal career on earth was a heroic response to
a sublime vocation. He was the destined herald of the true faith to half of
the human race.
Our plan for understanding "Christopher Columbus, the Catholic" is
to follow a chronological sequence. Given our nec"
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