Native Catholic Voices

"After a devastating fire, Mission San Gabriel community vows to rebuild", Pablo Kay, Angelus News, 7.13.2020.

"Canonization Mass of Saint Junipero Serra and a Native’s healing journey", Andrew Orosco, Inland Catholic Byte, 10.8.2015.

"Controversial Junípero Serra supported by some Indigenous Catholics, California mission workers", Allyson Escobar, National Catholic Reporter, 8.11.2020.

"Juaneño Catholic priest Jim Nieblas is a leader of church and tribe", Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 7.27.2016.

A KUMEYAAY’S REFLECTION, DEACON ANDREW (ANDY) OROSCO, The Journal of San Diego History, Summer 2019, Volume 65, Number 2.

"Meeting the Pope", Tony Cerda, Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe, 9.30.2015.

Ernestine de Soto, Chumash elder -- excerpt from Saint: The Canonization of Junipero Serra (Vision Maker Media, 9/14/2015).

"Mission to sainthood: Father Junipero Serra helped establish the California mission system, but is he saint material?", Sean McNulty, Santa Maria Sun, 9.5.2015.

"OFTEN CRITICIZED, SERRA GETS A REAPPRAISAL FROM HISTORIANS", Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times, 3.17.2015.

"Papal Visit Provides an Opportunity for California Mission Indian Representatives to Meet With Pope Francis", California Catholic Conference, 10.29.2015.

"Redstar: Chumash, Catholic and determined ‘to end and heal the ugliness’", Mike Nelson, Angelus News (Los Angeles), 12.3.2015.

"San Juan Capistrano celebrates Junipero Serra’s canonization",  Erin Donnelly, Orange County Register, 9.23.2015.

"Serra: Saint, Sinner forum draws heat from both sides", Michele Jurich, The Catholic Voice (Oakland, CA), 8.10.2015.

"Serra's legacy complicated by practices, conflicts of his time",  Nancy Wiechec and Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service, 7.29.2015.

"A Tour of California’s Spanish Missions",  Jamie Katz, Smithsonian, 5.2011.

"Unveiling Potential Saints for the Americas", Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register, 8.12.2019. 

"Catholic descendants of California Mission Indians: Junipero Serra in their words", Christian Clifford, California Catholic Daily, 10.10.2022.