‘Anti-Catholicism cannot go unanswered’ - Cordileone challenges charges on Serra vandalism case

Archbishop Cordileone told The Pillar that destruction of a Junipero Serra statue should mean felony charges.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to local prosecutors Wednesday, telling them he is “disturbed but not surprised” at a decision to downgrade the prosecution of five people who desecrated a statue of St. Junipero Serra in 2020.

Archbishop Cordileone. Image courtesy of Archdiocese of San Francisco

The letter preceded a May 25 decision to …