“Jesuits owning slaves has been known and publicized is nothing new. I knew it in my childhood. The Catholic Church and even the Jesuits themselves would have survived with out the sale of 272 slaves. It was a pretty big church, even then.”
Exactly. Far be it for me to defend the Jesuits or Georgetown U., but it’s utterly absurd to think that the entire history Catholic Church in the U.S. rises or falls depending on what happened at Georgetown in 1838. Uh, no. That’s revisionist garbage.
By 1838, how many Catholics were already living in New York City? Maybe 30,000? How long had the Catholic Church been in Florida? 300 years? How long had the Catholic Church been in California? 70 years?