{"id":12489,"date":"2020-08-06T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T21:35:42","slug":"the-catholic-conversion-of-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic conversion of Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is severely upset by a New York Times<\/i> piece about Jun\u00edpero Serra, canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK TIMES LIES ABOUT ST. SERRA AGAIN<\/a><\/p>\n

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A week later the New York Times maligned St. Serra in a front-page story by Laura M. Holson, \u201cSainthood of Serra Reopens Wounds in Colonialism in California.\u201d She said that \u201cHistorians agree that he [Serra] forced Native Americans to abandon their tribal culture and convert to Christianity, and that he had them whipped and imprisoned and sometimes worked or tortured to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a bald-face lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Et cetera, et cetera<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So I did what any idle Web surfer would do: I went to Wikipedia<\/a> and found this:<\/p>\n

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Serra wrote a letter<\/span> in August 1778 to Fernando Rivera y Moncada explicitly instructing the colonial commander to whip and shackle Indigenous men<\/span> who escaped from Mission San Carlos.<\/p>\n

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I am sending them to you so that a period of exile and two or three whippings<\/span> … If Your Lordship does not have shackles, with your permission they may be sent from here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deborah A. Miranda, a professor of American literature at Washington and Lee University and an enrolled member of the Ohlone\/Costanoan Esselen Nation, stated that “Serra did not just bring us Christianity. He imposed it<\/span>, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Donohue’s Internet service doesn’t make Wikipedia available? Or is it just good for fundraising to cultivate a sense of grievance?<\/p>\n

There certainly doesn’t appear to be any doubt that historians agree that Serra favored flogging unbelievers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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