Why the pope has yet to overturn the church’s colonial legacy

Bennett Collins

Why the pope has yet to overturn the church’s colonial legacy

Bennett Collins

Politics and International Relations

University of St Andrews

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On September 23 in Washington, DC Pope Francis will canonize Junipero Serra. The Spanish monk may have been called California’s founding father, but he is also seen as responsible for a policy that resulted in widespread violence and abuse against the Ohlone people, as well as others, in his quest to Catholicize the “New World.”..

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2015

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