The Press Office of the Holy See was the scene Monday morning for the presentation of a Day of Reflection on the life...
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Press Conference for the presentation of the Day of reflection on Blessed Junipero Serra. Watch LIVE now!
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 20, 2015
Pope to canonize the Apostle of California on 23 September during visit to US
Roman Catholic triumphalism? A failure to respect national/ethnic differences and identity.
The new saint Fray Junípero and America’s true identity
Reviving Hispanic and Catholic memory within a more complete vision of the origin of the United States enriches history and today’s perspective of the life of the nation. It also helps break down separation walls that distinguish between what is “Anglo” and what is “Hispanic”, between the Protestant and the Catholics tradition, between the United States and Latin America. It shows a deeper communion between Churches and a greater solidarity between nations across the continent, as requested in the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in America”. And it allows millions of Hispanics living in the United States to free themselves from a mentality that sees them as people living like foreigners, on the margins of North American society, barely tolerated and often discriminated and persecuted. It allows them to recognise that they are in continuity with those Hispanics who populated vast areas of the South-West, the centre and the East of what is now US territory, for centuries. They really can say “We are Americans”, without having to abandon their best cultural and religious traditions. Their situation requires serious, deep, reasonable and fair migration reform and respect for the rights of migrants and their families. The big mistake of thinkers such as Samuel Huntington, was associating North American identity with all that is Anglo-Saxon.
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