… distant frontier, Catholic explorers, soldiers, priests and pioneers consecrated this new world to their ancient faith and christened its land with Catholic names. Maryland, St. Louis, San Francisco, Santa Fe. Almost every region of what is now the United States was first explored and mapped by Catholics. This is no coincidence. Christianity taught the west to think in continents and centuries rather than villages and seasons. The Church calls us as Christ told St. Peter to Duke El Autumn to put out into the deep. (01:53–02:00)
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Asserts that Catholics were the first to explore and map almost every region of the current United States.
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