In exchange for this, the Spanish empire must finance the needs of the Church that included erection and building of churches, financing the salaries of the clergies and different church dignitaries, and implemented laws that affected church activities.
The roles of the clerics in the lives of the people in the Spanish colonies were very significant. Catholic priests gave social services such as hospital care that included elderly care, education, and business influenced almost all aspects of their lives and some even gave counseling to government leaders. These social services given by the Catholic clergies to the people of the colonies endeared them and gave power to the Church. This allowed the Catholic Church to be very influential in the lives of the people.
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Power and control were given to Spanish rulers and the viceroys in the colonies, allowing them to control church activities, making them more powerful, thus reflecting the power of Spain on the colonies. Religion served as a tool for the state to conquer the people.
However, since the clerics also became more influential and powerful, this became a seed for corruption. Aside from that, there were colonies that still resorted to their clandestine practice of ancient pagan beliefs. These problems became more apparent in the later years when most colonies struggled and fought to regain their independence, diminishing the power of the Catholic Church, though incompletely, but some of them freeing their countries from colonization.
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