Activists topple a statue of Father Junipero Serra at Father Serra Park on June 20 in downtown Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) It began with a prayer and ended with a loud clunk. On ...

The bishops said that they “vigorously and wholeheartedly support” efforts to identify, and repair historical instances of racism against members of the African-American and Native American ...

Those who "slander" the legacy of St. Junipero Serra ignore his history of opposing colonial oppression and abuses of indigenous Americans, said Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, praising the ...

Statues and other symbols honoring Junipero Serra, a Spanish colonial and leading figure in California’s missionary history, have come under fire recently, as civil rights advocates statewide pick up ...

LOS ANGELES — While Catholic leaders have made strong defenses of St. Junipero Serra after a wave of vandalism and crime targeted Catholic statues and churches last year, political leaders in ...

Apologies are not enough. As protesters have taken to the streets throughout the world in opposition to anti-Black racism, they’ve also attacked statues symbolizing dominating violence, precisely ...

Father Junípero Serra is fast losing ground in the literal and figurative American landscape. Statues of the missionary have been destroyed, removed or tagged for potential banishment up and down the ...

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Three months after San Diego Unified’s School Board voted to change the name of Junipero Serra High School to Canyon Hills High School, some Tierrasanta residents are calling it an unfair, rushed ...

The Catholic bishops of California have defended St. Junipero Serra, after statues of St. Junipero were torn down in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. The bishops said June 22 that the saint was ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The California Catholic Conference of Bishops is denouncing the toppling of Junipero Serra statues that protesters took down in San Francisco and Los Angeles over the weekend. “If ...