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Junipero Serra

The “moral complexity” of Junipero Serra

John Fea   |  August 17, 2020

Father Junipero Serra, a Franciscan priest who established some of the earliest Spanish missionsĀ  in California, has been under attack of late. On June 19, 2020, activists pulled-down a Serra statue in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The following day,...

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Father Junipero Serra is OUT at Stanford

John Fea   |  September 18, 2018

Here is the Stanford press release: Stanford will rename some campus features named for Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century founder of the California mission system, but will retain the Serra name and the names of other Spanish missionaries and settlers...

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Steven Hackel on Junipero Serra

John Fea   |  September 28, 2015

One of the more “Catholic” things that Pope Francis did during his visit to the United States was to canonize 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra. Ā In my post last week on Serra, I referenced Steven Hackel’s biography, Junipero Serra: California’s...

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Who is Junipero Serra?

John Fea   |  September 23, 2015

Today he will be the first Catholic saint to be canonized in the United States. But there is controversy involved: http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=nc_kcra_juniperoserrasaint_150921 Is Steven Hackel on television today? Ā He has written the best scholarly treatment of Serra: Junipero Serra: California’s Founding...

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