Jesuits & Slaveholding: An Ignatian Reflection on Reconciliation and Justice

In 2017 Fr. Tim Kesicki formally apologized for the sin of Jesuit slaveholding in Gaston Hall on Georgetown’s campus. Six years later he will reflect on a Descendant led vision for reconciliation and justice. Fr. Kesicki was a member of the Jesuit’s 36th General Congregation in 2016 where they promulgated the decree, “Companions in a Mission of Reconciliation and Justice.” He will reflect on this decree and its impact on this work of racial justice.
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Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ is the past president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. He works with the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Trust & Foundation. He served as provincial of the Chicago and Detroit provinces from 2008 – 2014 and was president of Saint Ignatius High School from 2000 – 2008. He has done graduate work in philosophy, theology, and educational administration at Loyola Chicago, Santa Clara University, Xavier, New Orleans and Columbia Teachers College. He has ministered with Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda and in secondary schools in the Midwest.