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Pope Francis: Junipero Serra ‘One of the Founding Fathers of the United States’

Pope Francis: Junipero Serra ‘One of the Founding Fathers of the United States’ On Saturday, Pope Francis, doubling down on the Vatican’s decision to canonize controversial Father Junipero Serra next September. Francis delivered a homily to an audience at Rome’s American seminary, the Pontifical North American College, in which he said that Serra was “one of the founding fathers of the United States.” Celebrating Mass as part of a conference discussing Serra’s life and legacy, Francis lauded Serra for leaving his more comfortable existence in Spain and traveling to the more primitive New World in order to spread Christianity, saying,… View Article