A SPECIAL REPORT: COLUMBUS

PROTEST: Recent Columbus-bashing is part of the “ ‘politically correct’ vilification” aimed at Christian civilization itself, writes Bishop Norman F. McFarland in the Diocese of Orange newsletter. . . . “Hispanaphobia with its anti-Catholic overtones obviously remains alive and well,” he complains. True, the conquistadors were abhorrent and even the church “is not without blemish,” but “the subjugated peoples were not always the ‘noble savages’ of revisionist imagination.”