Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past
- Written by Abel R. Gomez, PhD Candidate, Religion Department, Syracuse University
The 18th-century Catholic missionary Junipero Serra at work in California. Lawrence OP/flickr/St. Casimir’s church in Baltimore, CC BY-SAStatues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra were recently toppled in the U.S. cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento as part of a national movement for racial justice sparked by the...
