I strongly believe the American choice was a strategic decision made by a group of highly intelligent individuals.
Is it possible that this move is to reinstate Catholicism in the United States, given that Evangelicals appear to be gaining influence?
What do you mean reinstate? The country was founded by the descendants of people who for the most part hated Catholicism.
Yes, but... the Spanish reached present-day New Mexico before the English reached present-day New England.
Sure, but the Spanish colonization had virtually no impact on the ethnic, political, or religious development of the United States other than some water and land rights in the Southwest.