To Pope Francis, the 18th-century priest Junipero Serra was one of the United States’ founding fathers, a missionary who brought the Gospel to the New World. To Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the ...
The Catholic Church has a new saint — Father Junipero Serra, a missionary who in the 1700s founded nine missions in what is now California. On Wednesday, at one of those missions in San Francisco ...
Pope Francis canonized the first saint in North America -- Junipero Serra -- on Wednesday afternoon at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., before a ...
California transportation officials say the Serra statue failed program standards; Archbishop Cordileone says Catholics were shut out of the decision. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone ...
In the United States Capitol Building, each state is allowed to send two statues to commemorate significant figures from that state. California is currently represented by President Ronald Reagan and ...
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