{"id":295670,"date":"2025-04-15T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-88-on-columbus\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:22:30","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-88-on-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-88-on-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 88 &#8211; On Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Oct 10, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Watch on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8zPXC9KscGs\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/8zPXC9KscGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate over Christopher Columbus\u2019s legacy tends to go back<br \/>\nand forth from cartoonish demonization to glossing over the man\u2019s<br \/>\nreal faults. Robert Royal, in his book <em>Columbus and the Crisis<br \/>\nof the West<\/em>, does neither of those things, instead giving a<br \/>\nnuanced picture of Columbus\u2019s motives, worldview, faults and<br \/>\nachievements.<\/p>\n<p>The book goes beyond Columbus himself, however, examining the<br \/>\noverall significance of the encounters between cultures that<br \/>\noccurred in the Age of Exploration, how we do history, and how the<br \/>\nWest idealizes and instrumentalizes native peoples for its own<br \/>\npurposes of self-hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus was neither a genocidal maniac nor a saint; while he<br \/>\ndid not \u201cdiscover\u201d America, he did discover the world\u2014as much for<br \/>\nNative Americans as for Europeans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[2:42] Reason for a new edition<\/p>\n<p>[7:11] The evolution of Columbus&#8217;s legacy before recent<br \/>\ndecades<\/p>\n<p>[13:16] Columbus\u2019s motives: God, glory and gold, and their<br \/>\nmisrepresentation<\/p>\n<p>[16:25] A breakdown of Columbus&#8217; unprecedented achievements<\/p>\n<p>[20:56] Did Columbus discover America?<\/p>\n<p>[25:38] Relations with the natives on Columbus\u2019s first visit to<br \/>\nAmerica<\/p>\n<p>[33:26] Did Columbus intend to be a conqueror? His failures as a<br \/>\ngovernor<\/p>\n<p>[41:25] Columbus did not establish the Atlantic slave trade;<br \/>\nslavery in every culture<\/p>\n<p>[45:40] No institutional structure by which Columbus could fight<br \/>\nabuse of natives<\/p>\n<p>[49:17] Spain\u2019s role in the development of international law and<br \/>\nuniversal human rights<\/p>\n<p>[53:38] How we celebrate complicated historical figures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Columbus and the Crisis of the West<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophiainstitute.com\/products\/item\/columbus-and-the-crisis-of-the-west\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.sophiainstitute.com\/products\/item\/columbus-and-the-crisis-of-the-west<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free Columbus Day seminar with Robert Royal, Christopher Check<br \/>\nand Wilfred McClay <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.thomasmorecollege.edu\/rediscovering-columbus43042020\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/engage.thomasmorecollege.edu\/rediscovering-columbus43042020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Thing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/\">https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/88-on-columbus-robert-royal\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 10, 2020 Watch on YouTube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/8zPXC9KscGs The debate over Christopher Columbus\u2019s legacy tends to go back and forth from cartoonish demonization to glossing over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}