Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for th…

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

For centuries we have labored under the illusion that Western Christianity was something that could be exported, and only recent events have at last made it ob…

How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a peopl…