FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2015 file photo, a woman passes a statue of Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra at the Mission San Diego de Acala in San Diego. Pope Francis’ apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s crimes against indigenous peoples has not softened opposition among some California Native Americans to his decision to canonize 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra, extolled by the Vatican as a great evangelizer, but denounced by some tribal officials as a destroyer of Native culture. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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