Posted on 08/18/2022 6:39:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Last year, the U.S. branch of the Jesuits pledged to raise $100 million for a reconciliation initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved by the Catholic order. On Tuesday, a leader of those descendants expressed deep dissatisfaction with the order’s lack of progress since then.
Joseph Stewart, in a publicly released letter to the head of the order, contends the Jesuits have failed to uphold their side of the partnership with the urgency the circumstances demand. Stewart and other descendants are the progeny of 272 enslaved men, women and children sold in 1838 by the Jesuit owners of Georgetown University to Louisiana plantation owners to pay off the school’s debts.
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A recent article in the NY Times indicated that out of a $100 million Jesuit fund-raising target, a total of only $180K was raised so far
LOL!
I descend from folks captured in Vermont and New Hampshire by Indians, marched to Quebec and sold to the French as slaves.
The French were Catholics.
But I also descend from French Canadian Catholics.
Do I owe myself?
Bro, you shouldna bought that house so soon, if you couldn't make the payments!
I guess the fake pope better step up and fill in the gap
Woke broke and stupid on top of that
You can either pay up or flog yourself. :)
1838?
They should have let it go 100 years later. Now it’s been almost 200. Time to move on.
Yes. So if you write yourself a check you are all squared up.
Joseph Stewart is cordially invited to bugger off.
Make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, bake them, eat them. Those are your reparations. ; )
The pope better have a yard sale in Vatican City to raise the money!
Don’t pledge other peoples’ money. What a concept.
Okay. If it is Reparations you want?
I think the fair solution is for some Jesuits to agree to be slaves of the descendants of the slaves. Those actions would speak
I think the Jesuits need a bigger basket.
I am NOT going to leave the Catholic Church over any MAN, or men, meaning the Jesuits.
Like the malignant pope today, the Jesuit problem also will pass.
AND THE CHURCH WILL SURVIVE IN SPITE OF THEM.
I am NOT going to leave the Catholic Church over any MAN, or men, meaning the Jesuits.
Like the malignant pope today, the Jesuit problem also will pass.
AND THE CHURCH WILL SURVIVE IN SPITE OF THEM.
Thanksgiving must have been a nightmare at your house.
Yea, another Abenaki tour alumnus.
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