Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of Clergy Sexual Abuse Keynote Plenary Panel

This panel features five distinguished speakers addressing the core questions of the Taking Responsibility project. They will help us ask how to confront and handle the history of clerical sexual abuse and its many legacies in the present. This event brings together one of the foremost researchers on clerical sexual abuse in the United States, a Jesuit who is also a survivor of clerical sexual abuse and whose research is directed at the crisis, two well-known writers who are survivors and who have deep ties to Jesuit educational institutions, including Fordham, and the director of a major Truth and Healing initiative at a Jesuit-sponsored high school for Native American students.

From their own perspectives, each member of this group will reflect on the long and recent history of the sexual abuse crisis. We are honored to host these colleagues as they address the pressing question of what it means for today’s Jesuit institutions (and their employees, students, and graduates) to take responsibility for addressing and redressing the bitter legacy of clerical sexual abuse.