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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

151; -- Pope Francis, the first Hispanic head of the Catholic Church, will canonize the first Hispanic, Junipero Serra, during a special mass held at the National Basilica on Wednesday.

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 ...

When Pope Francis unexpectedly announced last month that he would canonize the Rev. Junipero Serra during his visit to the U.S. in September, he thrilled the many fans of the legendary 18th ...

Andrew Galvan, the curator of Mission Dolores and the man chosen to walk a cross bearing the remains of Junipero Serra up the aisle to where Pope Francis will run the canonisation ceremony Credit ...

On Wednesday, Pope Francis will canonize Father Junipero Serra in a mass in D.C. In the mid-18th century, Serra led the missionary movement in California. During this time, groups of Spanish ...

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.