[artichokegrower]

If you are not a Catholic why would you care who or who not the Pope canonizes. I don't care for the folks who the Oscars, Emmys, Grammies, or other awards are handed out to but that's my opinion and I am not going to take action on it other than not purchasing their product.

[gaijin]

Fake indians or homos..?

[hinckley buzzard]

Instigated by left wing bigots who think Fr Serra was evil for introducing the Indians to God.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[DesertRhino]

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.

[Baynative]

I expect the statue of him up on 280 will be getting some visits from vandals before long.

[terycarl]

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....

[Verginius Rufus]

The vandalism took place at Old Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, which is not a cathedral.

Carmel is in the diocese of Monterey. The cathedral in Monterey is also named for San Carlos Borromeo.