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-Great Cultural Revolution
Order Of Jesuit Priests Pledges $100 Million To Pay Reparations To Blacks For Slavery…
2021-03-17
[NYP] An order of Catholic priests has pledged $100 million in reparations to the descendants of people whom they owned as slaves during the early decades of the American republic.

The announcement by leaders of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States is one of the largest initiatives of its kind by any institution, and the largest thus far by the church, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The order has committed to raising the full sum in three to five years, with $15 million deposited in a trust already, reported the Guardian.

All of the money raised by the Jesuits will eventually go to the newly created Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation, which was established in partnership with a group of descendants.

The Rev. Timothy P. Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, told the Times that this is the beginning of "a very serious process of truth and reconciliation."

Kesicki called the history of Jesuit slaveholdings "shameful," adding that it’s "been taken off the dusty shelf, and it can never be put back."
Posted by:Besoeker

#19  No worries. Congress will reimburse them with tax payer debt.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-03-17 22:05  

#18  Prolly 30-40% of em are ghey
Posted by: Hupomoque Pholuting4839   2021-03-17 20:03  

#17  Jesuits are about as socialist as you can get and still claim to be "Roman Catholic". And with some of them like Fr James Martin, its questionable if they can even do that considering the heretical and heterodox scrawlings and positions they advocate (gay marriage)
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574   2021-03-17 19:55  

#16  In soviet american, indulgences perform you.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-17 16:28  

#15  I don't think this indulgence ever went away, maybe the vergin none(s) could stomp out a few batches for the friars...

Posted by: Whopuns Splat7703   2021-03-17 16:04  

#14  ^ too late. BLM already cornered the market on indulgences
Posted by: Thusoque Slesh2796   2021-03-17 15:58  

#13  They'll probably have to bring back 'Indulgences'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-03-17 15:51  

#12  
The answer is right before your very eyes,

Saturday Night, Catholic Church, what does this bring to mind ?

BINGO

More BINGO games per Catholic perish, more money for 'reparations'.

FISH FRY FRIDAYS

Pesce, Calamari, Frutti de Mare and more.

The lists can go on...
Carwash-Baptism-Blessings 4 your Bentley!
Ceiling and Wall Frescos - Michelangelo Style!
Triathlons - Run, Ride and Walk (Perhaps on Water)
Catholic Relics and Antiques
Posted by: Don Vito Clutle6950   2021-03-17 15:01  

#11  "The order has committed to raising the full sum in three to five years,"
Does that mean they will sell assets or seek donations to get the sum?
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-03-17 14:37  

#10  *****Bingo^^^^^^ - Give this MAN a Cigar !
Posted by: Guillibaldo B. Hayes8115   2021-03-17 14:02  

#9  
An a 1,000,000 watt lightbulb came on.

As we know "Jorge Mario Bergoglio" of Argentina became what we call the Socialist Pope.

Pope Francis, also holds the Notoriety of being the first Jesuit to be elected Pope - ever.

Given this we can also draw a line from his SOCIALIST Agenda and Views, to him directing this donation for Anti-USA/Anti-Capitalist Political agenda reasons.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-03-17 13:54  

#8  Oh yes, religions do favor particular political parties and they do vote and uphold the party policies.
Posted by: Glaving Sninesh8804   2021-03-17 13:52  

#7  ^^^ Liberals read The Bee and institute the gleaned up-side-down world as their policy, faster than you can say JACK ASS, their party's symbol.
Posted by: Glaving Sninesh8804   2021-03-17 13:50  

#6  This is not the Babylon Bee?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-03-17 13:32  

#5  Catholic priests... reparations to the descendants of people whom they owned as slaves during the early decades

I guess the Catholic priests know best then.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-03-17 13:16  

#4  How about those of us who suffered in Jesuit high schools? Where's ours?????
Posted by: Tom   2021-03-17 13:11  

#3  Now the Jesuits (always the last to get the Word) will have to pay off the Paraguayan Guarani that they enslaved, and the American Indians as well.
Posted by: b   2021-03-17 08:53  

#2  That's probably a check of maybe $1,000 or $1,500 per full-blood descendant -- assuming they can even be traced with confidence to the slaves. But what about the quadroons, octoroons, hexadecaroons etc?

Do they get a fraction of the $1k -- $250, $125, $66.66?
Posted by: Maggie Fleart7461   2021-03-17 08:07  

#1  Don't remember if Jesuits were involved in the actual African Slave Trade (although they had their fingers in everything at the time), but they sure were involved with that activity in Southeast Asia.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-03-17 07:56  

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