A piece of California history that dates to 1776 is going up for auction in New York City later this month. A two-page letter by Father Junipero Serra, regarded as the father of the California mission ...

Janet Dowling Sands will deliver a lecture, “A New Look at California’s Mission History,” on Jan. 16, at Sonoma Mission Chapel in Sonoma. What: Historian Janet Dowling Sands’ lecture on California’s ...

We humans, if we are to live intentional and thoughtful lives, almost always return to a series of timeless questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? To answer those questions ...

The film highlights the establishment of California's missions by Franciscan friars, who traveled great distances under dangerous conditions to spread Christianity and civilization. Led by Father ...

For many of our readers, the world has been their oyster these last months. They’ve ridden camels in Tangier, explored Maine’s Acadia National Park and seen the Northern Lights in Iceland. And when ...