Is Francis sending us an undocumented Mexican message?

WASHINGTON —  When Pope Francis celebrates a canonization Mass for a Spanish-Americanmissionary in Washington this month, he will do so in a language that the new saint, Junípero Serra, would recognize: Spanish.

There’s a number of reasons for that, said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who will be hosting the pope on the Washington leg of his three-city U.S. visit later this month.

First, Spanish is the pope’s mother tongue; he was born in Argentina. MORE