One of the most difficult tasks when we observe this period in Colombia’s history is to examine Mgr Carrasquilla’s role in Colombian modernization. Depending on our sources, Colombian Thomism was a backward conceptual framework that hindered the country or we were on the forefront of Neo-scholasticism [¿neotomismo?] and scientific catholic intellectuals [I’m not sure what “scientific catholic intellectuals” means in this context? Some options might be scientific Catholicism? scientific Catholic intellectualism? at the forefront among Catholic scientific thinkers?]. It is important to promote this discussion because it is a part of [one suggestion, “entails” doesn’t work but lots of other words could work here too :)] our history and our place in the world. However, there are multiple barriers to this effort.