The Community Healing program facilitates repair. Sometimes that looks like creating spaces built for honesty, enabling Descendants to tell the story of their lived experiences aloud, sometimes for the first time in a room full of willing listeners. Sometimes these experiences happen between Jesuits and Descendants, in which Jesuits learn and reckon with their inherited legacy. From that practice, understanding deepens, relationships form, and accountability becomes personal. Most important, the distance between Descendants and Jesuits — once defined by silence — begins to close.
Sometimes this program takes the form of investments in the unique needs of a specific community, such as rebuilding after a disaster. Sometimes it funds the artistic telling of Descendant stories. Always, it elevates the truth.
