about god and religion were not taken into account. The Catholic Church incurred a great injustice to the native population in the New World. They were reduced tosecond class citizens, and forced to work toward goals that they did not fully understand. Through the writings of Las Casas, it is seen how the Indians were slaughtered needlessly, and how they were baptised without regard to their feelings. Cortez paved theway for missions to be founded in the New World supposedly for the good of the Indian population. This, however, also turned against them. The Catholic Church role in the lives of the native population was a negative one due to its alliance with the Spanishmonarchy and its forced conversion of the Indians....
