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Mpls. statue with missionary priest among two vandalized on Thanksgiving

The 1936 statue “Pioneers” in Minneapolis’ B.F. Nelson Park was vandalized Nov. 26 with paint and the words “no thanks,” “no more genocide,” “land back” and “kill colonizers.” It includes a relief on its backside of an American Indian chief offering a peace pipe to Father Louis Hennepin, a 17-century Franciscan missionary and explorer who lived several months with the Sioux in Minnesota.

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Why “What are the bishops doing about it?” is the wrong question

Recently, the bishops of California made a statement regarding the attacks on the statues of St. Junipero Serra in San Francisco, Ventura, and Los Angeles. While acknowledging that there are legitimate concerns about racism both historical and contemporary, we insisted that the characterization of Serra as the moral equivalent of Hitler and the missions he founded as tantamount to death camps is simply unconscionable.

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