Congressional staffer Olivia Hnat has walked past the Capitol’s nine-foot bronze statue of Junipero Serra, the 18th-century ... His right hand lifts a cross, and the left supports a model ...

Four days after Pope Francis proclaimed Junipero Serra a saint, vandals defaced the grounds of Mission San Carlos in Carmel where the newly canonized Franciscan friar, and founding father of ...

Whatever the reviews of his work in California--and they run from “saintly” to “genocidal”--in his hometown of Petra on the Spanish island of Majorca, Junipero Serra is the local boy who ...

Vatican City, Sep 4, 2015 / 05:07 am Pope Francis on Wednesday kissed and blessed a cross that was buried with Father Junipero Serra, the early California missionary whom he will canonize during ...

The outcries began as soon as Pope Francis announced that, after 80 years of formal consideration, Father Junipero Serra, founder of the California missions, was to be made a saint. The outrage ...

MONTEREY (BCN) A young girl found the decapitated head of a Junipero Serra statue during a low tide Saturday afternoon off the coast of Monterey, a Monterey police sergeant said. Officers ...

WASHINGTON — Celebrating his first Mass in the United States on Wednesday, Pope Francis used the lesson of the newly canonized 18th century saint Junipero Serra to exhort the church to be ...

“I wouldn’t say the announcement of the Holy Father to canonize Junipero Serra ... the sign of the cross,” Mendoza said. “I had an adversarial relationship with Serra which went unspoken ...

A statue of Saint Junipero Serra must return to the Loyola Marymount University campus, an alumni group has said in a letter and petition to the president of the Los Angeles-area Catholic university.

“Moving the St. Junipero Serra statue to the Mission Basilica San Buenaventura underscores our dedication to preserving our community’s rich history and honoring the legacy of our earliest ...