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Gomez: On July 4, let’s also honor missionaries’ role in nation’s founding
American flags are placed by headstones in Holy Saviour Cemetery in Bethlehem, Pa., on a rainy July 1, 2021, ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. The Catholic cemetery is in the Diocese of Allentown. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
By Catholic News Service • Posted July 3, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) As the nation’ celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, Americans should recall the country’s “other founding” by the missionaries who, beginning in the 1500s, came to proclaim “the love of Jesus Christ to Indigenous peoples,” said Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez. ....

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