Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Thank you so

much for being with us. Strange times continue. we're living through very, very odd.

In some ways, maybe a bit obsessive ideological times and that reality has expressed itself here in the state of California

and other places in the tearing down of statues here to talk about the tearing down of the statues

and in some places the kind of

preventive peaceful removing of the statues I suppose of the man who is I guess from

the time we're at about fourth grade here in California we learn he's more or less the guy who made California

Father Unipiro, Sarah, Franciscan priest and missionary here to tell us about what's happening in San Francisco and also to talk about the man Sarah himself

Archbishop Salvatore Corleone the Archbishop of San Francisco Archbishop thank you for being with us

You're welcome.

To be on the show.

So I know in Ventura, they've got to take a statue down.

Some of the missions are taking the statues down

just so that nobody hurts the statues, I guess.

But in San Francisco, it got out of hand.

What happened there?

We had a, last Friday night, a, basically a mob went into Golden Gate Park and tore down three statues in a for some form of

protest. One must wonder what they were protesting because Sunip Roserocero was one of them, but they also pulled down a statue of Francis Scott Key and another one of

Ulysses S. Grant and we're seeing these protests against racism but Grant of course was an abolitionist and went to war to free the slaves.

Hunipro Serra, the real story isn't known so he's associated with something that he actually stood against or in his life.

Well you can see why Francis Scott Key though he did write the national anthem and I suppose

somebody will find a way to make that National Anthem a racist document of some sort.

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