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President James K. Polk prompted the U.S. Congress declares war on Mexico | May 13, 1846 after a disputed border clash on the Rio Grande, and indeed introduced the first official Catholic priests as U.S. military chaplains. Polk sent Zachary Taylor's troops into disputed territory, leading to Mexican fire and casualties that Polk used to claim "American blood was shed on American soil" A large minority of U.S. soldiers—especially Irish and German immigrants—were Catholic. P

Deepertruth with special permission and aid with Franiciscan Media, a great team for the Lord https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-saint-thomas-of-villanova/ spent on the poor in the hospital. What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture?” Thomas composed beautiful sermons, among which stands out the Sermon on the Love of God, one of the great examples of sacred oratory of the 16th century He began his episcopacy by visiting every parish in the Archdioc

During the 17th century, the Catholic Church acted as an aggressive agent of colonization, spiritual conversion, and geopolitical strategy in North America, leading to vastly different outcomes in New France (the Beaver Wars) and New Mexico (the Pueblo Revolt). The Catholic Church in the Beaver Wars (1609–1701) Jesuit missionaries—was deeply embedded in colonial survival and diplomacy. French authorities and Jesuit priests initially restricted French firearms only to Indige