CARMEL >> Grave sites were defaced along with the doors of the mission church once led by Junipero Serra, a Catholic priest canonized by Pope Francis during his visit to the United States last week.

Carmel >> The Carmel Mission will be the site of celebration and silent protest next week as the revered and reviled Father Junipero Serra, the man who built the California Mission system, will be ...

While Carmel-by-the-Sea is celebrating a century of incorporation, its most famous landmark is working on a quarter of a millennium. San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission — better known as the Carmel ...

CARMEL >> As Catholics celebrated Easter Sunday Mass in the packed Carmel Mission, nearly 200 Native Americans crowded into the nearby cemetery to honor their ancestors buried there and to protest the ...

Like the San Diego mission, this one began next-door to a presidio but soon relocated. It became the headquarters of mission founder Father Junípero Serra and was where he died in 1784. In addition to ...

This historic Mission has been renovated to its previous glory as both a Catholic Mission and now a thriving parish and school. The Basilica reflects the beautiful adobe architechture and houses many ...

SANS CARLOS Borroméo de Carmelo Mission – better known as Carmel Mission – is many things to many people. For history buffs, it”s an important site in California”s past. For the faithful, it”s where ...

Ed Soberanes, 76, the man who has played the pipe organ for every Mass, wedding and funeral in the Carmel Mission Basilica since 1974, is retiring. "I feel the mission is my home," said Soberanes, who ...

CARMEL — Grave sites were defaced along with the doors of the mission church once led by Junipero Serra, a Catholic priest canonized by Pope Francis during his visit to the United States last week.