The American Catholic order made a grand gesture in the continuing efforts to atone for slavery by pledging $100 million to benefit the descendants of the enslaved people it once owned. In a report from the New York Times, the money raised by the Jesuits will flow into a new foundation, the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation, which was established in partnership with a group representing the descendants of 272 slaves the order sold to a Louisiana plantation in 1838 to save Georgetown College. So far the organization has contributed $15 million and plan to raise the other $85 million over […]
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