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Serra canonization should be call to respect cultures, superior says

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Serra canonization should be call to respect cultures, superior says

July 29, 2019October 11, 2025

By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News ServiceROME — The canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra honors a famous missionary who was motivated by love of God, but it also is a call to recognize how the process of evangelization must respect peoples and their cultures, said the head of the Franciscan order.Father Michael Perry, minister general…...