The Catholic order known as the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States pledged on Monday to raise $100 million for reparative disbursements to descendants of enslaved Black people once owned by Jesuits. Role of Jesuits in slavery in AmericaVery few cultural institutions in America are untainted by the slavery of Africans and these institutions certainly do not include the Catholic Church. But the Church in America was very much the creation of its society as well as imagined according to the philosophy of the Catholic Church in Europe. Much of the deliberations in the Catholic Church of old on slavery bordered on just versus unjust slavery. This promulgation, and not even a stronger one in 1839 by Gregory XVI, could stop American Catholic priests from engaging in the sale and use of slaves.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 17, 2021 13:02 UTC