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The Rev. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, apologizes during the “Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope” at Georgetown University on April 18, 2017, for Maryland Jesuits’ sale in 1838 of 272 slaves that benefited the university. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks