To the Pope I say, lighten up Fancis! Serra was no Founding Father!
Lighten up. The Pope is just making a little pun on Junipero Serra's priestly title.
the pope was speaking of the new nation formed by catholic invaders from the south taking over what is presently the United
States
Actually he did founded the mission you got give him props for that
He brought Cathoicism to Native Americans
I think Native American miltants should lightin up
He brought Christ to America. So yes he was a “Founding Father”. To be hated by the anti-God crowd, which includes all leftists.
Well this should agitate some of the Pope’s fans on the Left:
http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/05/04/popewatch-junipero-serra/
“Pope Francis said during his homily he wanted to discuss three aspect of the life of Blessed Serra – his missionary zeal, his Marian devotion, and his witness of holiness.
Pope Francis said it was “that heartfelt impulse which seeks to share with those farthest away the gift of encountering Christ: a gift that he had first received and experienced in all its truth and beauty” which drove the Franciscan Missionary to leave everything he knew and go to the ends of the earth.
The Holy Father said this a challenge to us today, and asked if are able “to respond with the same generosity and courage to the call of God, who invites us to leave everything in order to worship him, to follow him, to rediscover him in the face of the poor, to proclaim him to those who have not known Christ and, therefore, have not experienced the embrace of his mercy.”
Pope Francis noted Blessed Junipero wanted to consecrate his life to Our Lady of Guadalupe and to ask her for the grace to open the hearts of the colonizers and indigenous peoples, for the mission he was about to begin. The Pope said you cannot “separate her from the hearts of the American people.”
And finally, Pope Francis pointed out he was one of the founding fathers of the United States, a saintly example of the Church’s universality and special patron of the Hispanic people of the country.
He said this zeal was also true for the many missionaries who brought the Gospel to the New World and, at the same time, defended the indigenous peoples against abuses by the colonizers.
Leftists by and large hate Christianity and adore racial identity politics. This makes Junipero Serra an obvious target of the Left and the Pope’s defense of him maddening to them”.