Those countries you mentioned aren’t as archetypically Catholic as Spain. Also, remember that the version of Catholicism that made its way to LA through colonia

Those countries you mentioned aren’t as archetypically Catholic as Spain. Also, remember that the version of Catholicism that made its way to LA through colonialism was, in essence, medieval. While in Europe new ideas entered and became established in the Christian religion, we were stuck with the medieval version of Catholicism for several centuries. It wasn’t until the end of the 19th century that new ideas started entering the collective consciousness.