Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who Pope Francis plans to canonize during his first trip to the United States this week, advocated and oversaw the whipping, beating, flogging and extermination of Native Americans in what is now California. Serra, the founder of the state’s first mission in San Diego in 1769, will be the first saint canonized
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Could they have chosen a less appropriate person?
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