Native Groups Protest Pope Francis’ Canonization of Junípero Serra over Role in California Genocide

[@5446mick]

England did the same thing with Ireland, asked and receieved a papal bull for the conquest and colonisation of barbarous irish celts. 800 years of colonial brutality followed. This myth making of the church is not only an insult to the native peoples, but to its own canon of true saints.

[@ayema5449]

+mick rick -- Doesn't it make you question the entire concept of "the church"?

[@5446mick]

It used to, particularly because the same power relations - between church and illegitimate temporal authorities/states - was still evident growing up in the north of Ireland. Francis gives me hope the church can be brought back to the gospels and be a ''church of the poor'', but I'm deeply disappointed he canonised such a person.

[@casimiralexander]

a true saint, st. Brigitte... the pope of her day attempted to have her assasinated, and only called it off when he witnessed her grace and feared God's wrath.

[@ayema5449]

Casimir Alexander Also St. Joan was a true saint but unfortunately, her execution was not called off and she was not made a Saint until long after her torturous death.

[@casimiralexander]

Yes. Visionary Joan de Arc

[@scasey1960]

Catholics and Californians need to own this history

[@NativevoicetvOrg]

Please do share with others and listen from 'Indigenous Native American' perspectives and then decide who is telling the Truth? And does TRUTH really matter? Native Voice TV is to Speak the Truth from Indigenous People.

[@indioside376]

Serra was in essence just another Conquistadors. The Calaveras River bears testimony to part of what happened. Calaveras mean skulls in Spanish, which is all the French Canadian fur trappers found on one of their trading mission. This canonization issue guarantees 'll never go back to the Church!

[@johnchevelle1831]

Great report. Democracy Now never turning a blind eye.

[@Guytalayhne]

How are catholics and christians still being celebrated in the Western Hemisphere in 2016?

[@Henbot]

+Jacob Chavez History books in schools kinda leave this sort of stuff out in their books

[@Guytalayhne]

Public school miseducation. Continue with the facade.

[@Guytalayhne]

Public school miseducation. Continue with the facade.Henbot

[@scentability0129]

But I thought he was supposed to save us from climate change... My Progressive Message wires are getting crossed.

[@simplexpressions4192]

Good reporting.

[@imeakpan]

yes indeed.

[@ayema5449]

Thank you for sharing the truth.

[@t.s.6217]

. Simple body language techniques: Hey everyone. First I didn't know who junipero serra was before literally yesterday and this was the first video I watched about him as serra's name appeared somewhere and there was a controversy about him and I needed to know who he is as it got me intrigued. The following is not what you think, the following is a simple observation that I felt I needed to share with whomever is watching this. Body language techniques: -I don't know who is the man they are having the interview with but let me tell you bluntly that he lied over 50 times in this interview, and showed numerous slips: swallowing, stuttering, thinking too much about the words he want to say, etc... -also watch him starting second 45 when he says 'capturing and caring' and then he's like look what am saying and he changes the word and continues.. this is called slip of the tongue which is when our mechanism is trying to reveal the thoughts or desires of the unconscious mind. To specify clearly: he 'knows' Serra cared for the indigenous people but for some reason he decided to say otherwise and his unconscious brought up the truth for a second.. and the he tried to mask it and changed the word again. Again, I don't know who this man is and I don't know why he is lying so badly (btw) but he got me thinking that for having someone on TV trying to lie so much about a certain (controversial) topic then he definitely has something to hide and this made me want to know more about the true serra honestly. I wanted to share this and I hope my expertise can help you and others have a better perspective and be vigilant when watching anything and most importantly pay attention to your hunch feeling cz you don't need to be an expert to detect that something is wrong about this man. Thank you and God bless you

[@truth2uguys]

Thanks be to God for St. Junipero Serra!

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

If Christians go to heaven then I'd rather go to hell - Hatuey Taino Revolutionary

[@spookyzoom]

​@@RoyalKnightVIIIwho?

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

@@spookyzoom Look it up. Hatuey was the elaser of taino resistance in what's now Cuba

[@kenkeefner3164]

I apposed the canonization of Fr. J. Serra

[@CarlosFChAlvidrez]

AMERICAN HOLOCAUST two chapters to follow are thus necessarily limited in their concerns to the social and cultural worlds that existed in North and South America before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. We shall have to rely on our imagi- nations to fill in the faces and the lives. The extraordinary outpouring of recent scholarship that has analyzed the deadly impact of the Old World on the New has employed a novel array of research techniques to identify introduced disease as the primary cause of the Indians' great population decline. As one of the pioneers in this research put it twenty years ago, the natives' "most hideous" enemies were not the European invaders themselves, "but the invisible killers which those men brought in their blood and breath." 7 It is true, in a plainly quantita- tive sense of body counting, that the barrage of disease unleashed by the Europeans among the so-called "virgin soil" populations of the Americas caused more deaths than any other single force of destruction. However, by focusing almost entirely on disease, by displacing responsibility for the mass killing onto an army of invading microbes, contemporary authors increasingly have created the impression that the eradication of those tens of millions of people was inadvertent-a sad, but both inevitable and "un- intended consequence" of human migration and progress.8 This is a mod- ern version of what Alexander Saxton recently has described as the "soft- side of anti-Indian racism" that emerged in America in the nineteenth century and that incorporated "expressions of regret over the fate of In- dians into narratives that traced the inevitability of their extinction. Ideo- logically," Saxton adds, "the effect was to exonerate individuals, parties, nations, of any moral blame for what history had decreed." 9 In fact, how- ever, the near-total destruction of the Western Hemisphere's native people . was neither inadvertent nor inevitable. From almost the instant of first human contact between Europe and the Americas firestorms of microbial pestilence and purposeful genocide began laying waste the American natives. Although at times operating in- dependently, for most of the long centuries of devastation that followed 1492, disease and genocide were interdependent forces acting dynami- cally-whipsawing their victims between plague and violence, each one feeding upon the other, and together driving countless numbers of entire ancient societies to the brink-and often over the brink-of total exter- mination. In the pages that lie ahead we will examine the causes and the consequences of both these grisly phenomena. But since the genocidal component has so often been neglected in recent scholarly analyses of the great American Indian holocaust, it is the central purpose of this book to survey some of the more virulent examples of this deliberate racist purge, from fifteenth-century Hispaniola to nineteenth-century California, and then to locate and examine the belief systems and the cultural attitudes that underlay such monstrous behavior.

[@ChiLanbalan1]

Saint devil Junipero Serra

[@iSee109]

I was the 109th like.