Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced that the name of Saint Junípero Serra, an 18th century Catholic priest who established the first missions in California, will be removed from a park ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — St. Junipero Serra’s heroism did not change when California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to ensure that his statue will no longer stand on the state capitol grounds, ...

Los Angeles is scrubbing the name of Junipero Serra, a Roman Catholic saint and missionary, from a downtown Los Angeles park, more than a year after activists vandalized statues of the 19th century ...

St. Junipero Serra, the archbishops noted, traveled 2,000 miles to Mexico City when he was aged and infirm “to demand that authorities adopt a native bill of rights he had written.” Archbishop ...

“Enslavement of both adults and children, mutilation, genocide, and assault on women were all part of the mission period initiated and overseen by Father Serra,” declares Assembly Bill 338, which ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Cathedral of Our lady of the Angels in Los Angeles is dedicating a new chapel to the soon-to-be saint, Junipero Serra. The cathedral is honoring the founder of the California ...

California’s decision to take down a statue of St. Junipero Serra in August has sparked fury from people, including political commentators and church leaders. The 26-foot statue of the colonial-era ...

On Wednesday, the Vatican announced that, as Pope Francis had suggested four months ago, Rev. Junipero Serra will be canonized, at a ceremony on Sept. 23 while the pope is visiting Washington, D.C.

In “Don’t Slander St. Junípero Serra” (op-ed, Sept. 13), Archbishops Salvatore Cordileone and José Gomez make the statement: “None of that is true.” That remark attempts to deny many of the cruelties ...

A California bill to replace a statue of St. Junipero Serra at the state capitol unfairly slanders the saint’s legacy, two archbishops claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday, Sept. 12 ...