Tuesday, June 30, 20200310Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez has asked Catholics to join in praying to St. Junipero Serra on his feast day, July 1, for “an end to racial prejudice and a new awareness of what it means that all men and women are created equal as children of God.”
Friday, October 2, 20150206It has been said that “God writes straight with crooked lines.” It occurred to me this past week that one of God’s crooked lines was behind Fray Junipero Serra becoming the father of the California missions instead of a missionary in Texas. The story is told by Richard F. Pourade in his history of San Diego, Calif.