What is native catholicism?

Question

i'm in 5th grade and the sudject is social studies.
my last lesson was about how spain colonized the philippines

Answer 1

'Native Catholicism' is the early Phillipine mixture of native and Catholic beliefs. When Spanish missionaries came, the people took their teachings of Catholicism and combined them with their own pre-existing beliefs to form a sort of mix. Most converted native peoples did the same thing.

This explanation is about the Mayans, but the concept is exactly the same:

"Although Catholic missionaries and priests often lived in Maya villages, they were always too few to have a dominating presence. They usually permitted the Maya to raise money and manage the religious processions surrounding the various cofradías, or cults of the saints. These cofradías became infused with pre-Columbian beliefs and created what has been called native Catholicism. In this syncretic religion, Catholic saints fused with ancient Maya gods, Christian resurrection became inseparable from the pre-Columbian maize god's sacrifice and rebirth, and the ritual calendars combined to celebrate Catholic holidays and native celebrations, such as was the case with All Saints' Day, which merged with the honoring of ancestors in Day of the Dead ceremonies. The religious synthesis constantly adapted to new challenges; as late as the 19th-century, the Caste War rebels living in eastern Yucatán reinterpreted a Christian cross into a Maya oracle known as the Speaking Cross, thereby continuing the tradition of oracular shrines that had been established in the area for centuries before the Spanish Conquest."

Answer 2

catholicism practiced by the natives, probably the philippine natives, before the spanish came and influenced and changed it.

Answer 3

Well, Gabbi, I think you need to work on your spelling.