十五世纪末,哥伦布发现了美洲大陆以后,欧洲出现了一个规模空前的向新世界殖民扩张的狂潮。西班牙和萄葡牙殖民者就从这时开始,在拉丁美洲建立了残酷的殖民统治达三百年之久。天主教会在这段历史中,扮演了一个极其残忍而又可耻的角色。尽管那些教权派的历史学家和垄断资本的御用文人,一再断言天主教会在殖民地曾起过“积极作用”,似乎教士们曾经在殖民地传布“基督文明”,带来上帝的“仁慈”,从而 At the end of the 15th century, after Columbus discovered the continent of America, there was a frenzy in Europe of an unprecedented expansion into a new world. From this moment on, Spanish and Portuguese colonists established the cruel colonial rule in Latin America for three hundred years. The Catholic Church played an extremely cruel and shameful role in this period of history. Although the Anglican historians and monopoly writers of monopolies have repeatedly asserted that the Catholic Church had played an “active role” in the colonies, it seems that the priests had once proclaimed “the Christian civilization” in the colonies and brought God’s “benevolence” thereby