Fordham's ongoing TR project – "Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of Clergy Sexual Abuse" – is sponsoring two webinars this spring.
We hope you will consider joining us for one or both. Details below.
Part I: Memorializing Clergy Sexual Abuse-- March 18, 12pm-1:30pm ET
An interdisciplinary conversation about ethics, means, and the meanings of public memorials related to clergy sexual abuse.
In this webinar, three scholars will explore questions about whether, when, and how communities can contend–together, as communities–with the history and memory of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis. With expertise in trauma studies, liturgy, theology, and history, our panelists ask about the ethics, means, and meanings of various efforts to remember clergy sex abuse, as well as those who suffered and defied it.
Part II: Whose Stories Are They? Catholic Sex Abuse Records and the Issue of Transparency-- April 10, 4:30pm-6pm ET
Springing from a recent legal settlement that promised an Abuse Documents Archive in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, this webinar asks questions about the meanings, limits, and promise of “transparency” in the effort to understand and ameliorate the Catholic clergy abuse crisis.
What is to be learned, gained, and achieved in opening up the archives of Catholic sex abuse? What kind of healing follows from transparency, if any? Beyond respecting the wishes of survivors who prefer privacy, are there any other limitations to consider? What does transparency have to do with Catholic theology or with the practices and disciplines of Catholic experience?
Join us as four experts–an archivist, a canon lawyer, a survivors' attorney, and an historian–tackle these and related questions.
Free and open to the public. Registration is required.
For additional information, please contact takingresponsibility@fordham.edu
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theology, Fordham and the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies.
