What was the pope's role in the growth of the Spanish Empire and spreading Catholicism to the New World?
A The pope visited the New World to bring Catholicism to the Indigenous populations during the age of exploration.
B The pope provided funding and papal authority to colonize new lands in the name of the "true faith”
C The pope personally oversaw the conquest of Granada, freeing the colony from its Muslim
occupants.
D The pope fought in the Reconquista in Spain, helping charge the Spanish with religious zeal.