Pope Francis, Serra, and Blind Trust

I am sorry to rant about Pope Francis.  I know he has many, many progressive ideas and seems warm and accepting. I like many of the things he's said, many of the things he's done.  However, his canonization of Father Junipero Serra has divided me from him in a major way.  I already spoke of how I feel about his refusal to even acknowledge the idea of ordaining women. I think he surely must have had a choice in the matter.  He speaks out about many issues that probably scandalize higher-ups in the Church.  Why did he not carefully consider Serra's past actions?

 I think it is ridiculous to sweep everything Serra did under the rug of "well, he was a man of his time."  Nobody would do this with any figure involved with genocide; they'd be seen, at the very least, as wrong-minded and completely stupid.

Some say that there is "no evidence Serra abused any Native American directly."  I hate to parallel him with this person...but Charles Manson is in prison for the rest of his life, and previously was given the death penalty, for commandeering the deaths of several people.  Serra, in fact, was directly responsible for the deaths of many more people than Manson, even if he didn't raise a finger (though there is much evidence he did, and he certainly didn't exactly turn a blind eye to it all). Now the Catholic Church has made him a frickin SAINT?  Why were the indigenous people of California, those who died and those who live now,  just ignored in this process?

Here is the fact: under Serra's reign as the