Columbus's Christianity and the Culture Wars

Robert Royal, President of the Faith and Reason Institute and professor at Thomas More College discussed his recently published book, Columbus and the Crisis of the West for the Catholic Information Center on February 10. In it, he corrects revisionist history that depicts Christopher Columbus as a genocidal monster who advanced by a quantum leap the catastrophe that is Western Civilization. He shows that in fact Columbus acted from piety and concern for evangelism in light of the expectation of Christ's second coming, but also for a desire for glory, which Royal appears to believe he earned.