Georgetown Jesuits enslaved her ancestors. Now she's working for justice.

Onita Estes-Hicks has been Catholic her entire life. Men in her
family were named “Nace” after St. Ignatius, a testament to the
influence of the Jesuits in her family’s life. But her relationship
with her faith was forever changed in 2004, when her family
discovered that they were the descendents of one of the 272
enslaved persons sold by the Jesuits who ran Georgetown University
in 1838. We talk to Onita about what it was like to find out about
her family’s history, what Georgetown has done to ask for
forgiveness and what it’s been like to form a community of other
descendants. In Signs of the Times we unpack the latest
developments from the case of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick
(for a fuller discussion, listen to this week’s episode of Inside
the Vatican) and discuss the new Archbishop of Washington, D.C. In
our new segment, “Being Frank,” we talk about the pope’s advice to
young travelers to focus on encounter, not consumerism (or
Instagram likes). Links from the show: GU272 Descendants
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report was released, Pope Francis said he ‘knew nothing’ about
McCarrick Washington’s black Catholic community looks to Archbishop
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