Pope Francis makes Spanish missionary Junípero Serra a saint amid protests

The pope conducted the canonisation in front of 25,000 people in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in WashingtonPope Francis has made a controversial Spanish missionary a saint in an elaborate ceremony that inspired mass devotion as well as protests branding the new saint a persecutor of Native Americans. At the end of a day that saw the Argentinian pontiff touch on some of the thorniest issues in US politics, from climate change to immigration to the clerical sex