Most US Americans are protestants, because we have religious cultural roots with later British and Dutch settlers. But the first colonizers of North America and South America were the Spanish and Portuguese, who are very Catholic, and they dominated colonization efforts for some 200 years.
America cared what the pope said? Weren’t (and aren’t) most Americans Protestant, very few Catholics?
Most US Americans are protestants, because we have religious cultural roots with later British and Dutch settlers. But the first colonizers of North America and South America were the Spanish and Portuguese, who are very Catholic, and they dominated colonization efforts for some 200 years.