New EWTN Documentary Celebrates Heroic Virtue of St. Junípero Serra

Two years ago, statues of St. Junípero Serra were desecrated and toppled within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone did not cower amid the furor. There were shouts to cancel St. Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan priest and missionary who brought the Gospel to the Native peoples of New Spain’s Alta California. Archbishop Cordileone’s response was to simply draw from the deposit of faith: through prayer, honoring and knowing the faith’s rich tradition and history and, like St. Junípero, to keep moving forward and never turn back.