What best describes the reasons friar and jesuits went to the colonies

Colonies represented, for Catholic orders, untapped conversion potential.

So, the Jesuits and other orders went wherever there were people that had not heard of Christianity and the Religious Wars in Europe and converted the willing and unwilling to Catholicism.

i would say your answer is a)

sorry if im wrong

`stare decisis is a legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases when making a ruling on a similar current or future case. stare decisis ensures that cases with identical facts be approached in the same way, unless overruled by the same court or a higher court such as the us supreme court. simply put, it binds courts to follow legal precedents set by previous decisions.

stare decisis is a latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided".