A New Path to Reconciliation: the Jesuits and Slaveholding

Speaker: Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ

Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Detroit Athletic Club Pavilion
241 Madison St.
Detroit, Michigan

Jesuits have been at the forefront of Catholic Education in the United States since we first reached the Chesapeake Bay in 1633. We have labored not only to teach, but to form young women and men to become moral leaders. We are very grateful for our American heritage, yet we know that its earliest foundation was built on enslaved labor, including the sale of human life.. In 2016 we began to meet the living Descendants of this tragic history and they have invited us to partner with them in a mission of truth, reconciliation, and justice. Fr. Kesicki will share the vision of this partnership and the hope it offers for our nation and our Church.

Speaker Bio: Father Timothy P. Kesicki, SJ, works with the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation, a new partnership between Descendants of Jesuit slaveholding and the Society of Jesus in the United States. He just completed his tenure as president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States in September 2021. Prior to leading the Jesuit Conference, Fr. Kesicki served from 2008 through 2014 as the Provincial of the Chicago-Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus.

Father Kesicki has ministered and taught in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and worked with Jesuit Refugee Service in Adjumani, Uganda following his ordination. In Detroit, Fr. Kesicki taught at both University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Loyola High School, and served as a weekend assistant at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Fr. Kesicki served as president of Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland from 2000 – 2008.

Program Details
11:30 a.m. – Doors Open (check in and registration)
12:00 p.m. – Lunch Begins
12:15 p.m. – Program Begins

Please note that all Covid protocols in place at the time of the event will be followed. The Detroit Athletic Club Pavilion is an outdoor venue.

A Jesuit Walks Into A Bar: Sit-Down Comedy with Fr. Jake Martin, SJ

Speaker: Fr. Jake Martin, SJ, with cohost Br. Matt Wooters, SJ

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

UP Comedy Club at The Second City
230 W. North Avenue, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60614

Program Details
5:30 p.m. – Cocktails and Heavy Hors D’oeuvres
6:30 p.m. – Show

Father Jake Martin, SJ is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Creighton University. Prior to coming to Creighton, Fr. Jake was completing his PhD in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He has been a contributing writer on film and television for America Magazine since 2009 and has written for numerous other publications including Huffington Post, Busted Halo, and American Catholic Studies. His book What’s So Funny About Faith: A Memoir from the Intersection of the Hilarious and Holy was published by Loyola Press in 2012. Jake is also an actor and improvisational comedian whose solo show Learning to Pray in Front of the Television was an official selection for the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jake has also performed at numerous venues in Chicago and New York.

The show will be co-hosted by Br. Matt Wooters, SJ. Br. Matt serves as a vocation promoter for the Midwest Jesuits, an open water swimmer, and is training for an Ironman triathlon to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.

Registration includes two drink tickets and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

 

"The Pope's Astronomer" with Q&A

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Windows on the River
2000 Sycamore St.
Cleveland, OH 44113

Speaker: Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is the Director of the Vatican Observatory. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT, and a Ph. D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, in 2015 Pope Francis appointed Dr. Consolmagno director of the Vatican Observatory.

Br. Guy’s research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies. He has observed Kuiper Belt objects with the Vatican’s 1.8 meter telescope in Arizona, and measured of meteorite physical properties to understand asteroid origins and structure. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), and Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (with Paul Mueller). In 2000, the IAU named asteroid, 4597 Consolmagno, in recognition of his work. In 2014 he received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.

Program Details

11:30 a.m. – Doors Open (check in and registration)
12:00 p.m. – Lunch Begins
12:15 p.m. – Program Begins

A Jesuit Walks Into A Bar: Sit-Down Comedy with Fr. Jake Martin, SJ

Speaker: Fr. Jake Martin, SJ

Thursday June 2, 2022

Laugh Camp Comedy Club at Camp Bar
490 Robert St. N.
Saint Paul, MN 55101

Program Details
5:30 p.m. – Cocktails and Heavy Hors D’oeuvres
6:30 p.m. – Show

Father Jake Martin, SJ is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Creighton University. Prior to coming to Creighton, Fr. Jake was completing his PhD in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He has been a contributing writer on film and television for America Magazine since 2009 and has written for numerous other publications including Huffington Post, Busted Halo, and American Catholic Studies. His book What’s So Funny About Faith: A Memoir from the Intersection of the Hilarious and Holy was published by Loyola Press in 2012. Jake is also an actor and improvisational comedian whose solo show Learning to Pray in Front of the Television was an official selection for the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jake has also performed at numerous venues in Chicago and New York.

The show will be co-hosted by Fr. R. J. Fichtinger, SJ. Fr. R.J. is the Associate Pastor of Saint Thomas More Parish in Saint Paul.

Registration includes two drink tickets and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

 

A Jesuit Walks Into A Bar: Sit-Down Comedy with Fr. Jake Martin, SJ

Speaker: Fr. Jake Martin, SJ

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Windows on the River
2000 Sycamore St.
Cleveland, OH 44113

Program Details
5:30 p.m. – Cocktails and Heavy Hors D’oeuvres
6:30 p.m. – Show

Father Jake Martin, SJ is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Creighton University. Prior to coming to Creighton, Fr. Jake was completing his PhD in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He has been a contributing writer on film and television for America Magazine since 2009 and has written for numerous other publications including Huffington Post, Busted Halo, and American Catholic Studies. His book What’s So Funny About Faith: A Memoir from the Intersection of the Hilarious and Holy was published by Loyola Press in 2012. Jake is also an actor and improvisational comedian whose solo show Learning to Pray in Front of the Television was an official selection for the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jake has also performed at numerous venues in Chicago and New York.

The show will be co-hosted by Fr. R. J. Fichtinger, SJ. Fr. R.J. is the Associate Pastor of Saint Thomas More Parish in Saint Paul.

Registration includes an open bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres.