Posted on 09/27/2015 5:21:19 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Carmel >> A special Mass celebrating the canonization of Saint Junipero Serra was marred on Sunday by vandalism at Carmel Mission Basilica.
A 6-foot tall bronze statue of Serra in the mission courtyard was pushed over and the staff in the statue’s hand was broken. A fountain next to the statue was splattered with paint, as were the doors of the cathedral.
(Excerpt) Read more at montereyherald.com ...
Fake indians or homos..?
Yeah, they were so much better off ripping out each others still beating hearts!
Leftist reasoning:
The Catholic Church is bad.
Father Serra was bad.
The foundation of missions in California was bad.
The conversion of California natives was bad.
The colonization of the Americas by Europeans was bad.
*Vandalizing something associated with Bad People makes me good.*
Father Serra and Old Gabriel will be interceding for this creep’s eternal salvation.
No one vandalized the Quetzalcoatl statue in San Jose...
I’m no Catholic. But by any standard, Serra was a hero. He lived a very austere life, asking none to do what he wouldn’t. He went to California, so isolated from his native Spain that he might as well have been on Mars. And he was faced with a pagan society and culture and did his best. He established a string of missions, and held the line.
The guy deserves to be honored and only a sorehead would belittle him.
With an ulcerated leg the entire time.
F. Junipero Serra brought the gospel to the Indians of the Southwest. The present-day agitators are speaking only for themselves, and not for their ancestors. In fact, how many of the protesters are actually Indians?
This all appears to be primarily another case of rewriting history by anti-Christian/anti-Catholic bigots. Much like those who insist that every symbol of the Civil War and the Confederacy must all be cleansed from our history, these folks are imposing their own values upon those of people who lived 3 centuries ago. They only represent their own idiosyncracies and no others.
Where’s that statue?
On the 280 freeway in the hills above San Mateo.
some obviously adult behavior....kind of like in the inner city, if you don’t like something, resort to violence and destruction of someone else’s property....
Carmel is in the diocese of Monterey. The cathedral in Monterey is also named for San Carlos Borromeo.
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