Most of the colonists came to accept the revolutionary idea of the separation of Church and State as a great good not only for this country, but for Catholic Europe as well. Both civil and religious authorities in America openly proclaimed the need to abandon their “medieval positions” and theocracies. It is quite interesting that in Europe, Protestants had to adapt to the central beliefs of Catholicism, but when colonists entered America, it was the Catholics who had to adapt to the majority of the beliefs of Protestants.