I occasionally encounter very mistaken, even misleading, claims about the Church’s involvement or lack of involvement in Mesoamerican archaeology. Here’s a relatively short article that I wrote back in 2004 that might help to shed some light on that topic:
https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1458&index=12
Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France
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