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As journalist Rachel Swarns recounted in a Twitter thread last March, she received an email in 2016 from a source detailing how Jesuit priests had sold 272 people in 1838 to pay off debts and save Georgetown University from financial ruin.
In 2015, Georgetown University stripped from two buildings the names of early school presidents, both Jesuit priests, who had orchestrated the sale of enslaved people in 1838 to help the struggling school pay off debts.
In 2016, reporter Rachel Swarns received a tip that Jesuit priests sold 272 people in 1838 to save Georgetown University … a historical fact that, while known to scholars, had received little attention.
He excelled in football and basketball in high school and received an athletic scholarship to the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit college whose head basketball coach, Phil Woolpert, later entered the Hall of Fame.
a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen
(sometimes not capital)informal, offensivea person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist