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Keeping the Jesuit tradition alive | Faith Matters
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
The Rev. Andrew N. Downing has been named vice president of Mission and Ministry at St. Peter s University in Jersey City.
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The Rev. Andrew N. Downing has a scholarly bent and was a perfect fit to become a Jesuit, known for their academic achievements. Yet, there was a pull to the pastoral side of priesthood, which curiously led him this year to become the fourth vice president for Mission and Ministry at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City.
The part of his job he enjoys the most is interacting with students.
Jesuits in Spain admit to decades of sexual abuse
Report says 81 children, 37 adults victims since 1920s By ARITZ PARRA and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Published: January 22, 2021, 5:32pm
Share: Protesters demonstrate June 22, 2018, while blocking the street outside the Justice Ministry in Madrid, Spain. The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims by 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, in a report released Friday. (Paul White/Associated Press)
MADRID The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims of 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, a much higher number than the cases that had so far been publicly known.
Jesuits in Spain drop bombshell by admitting to decades of sexual abuse
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Friday was Spain’s day of clergy-abuse reckoning.
A blistering internal inquiry on Jesuit sexual-abuse allegations in the European nation identified 118 victims since the late 1920s 81 of them children at the time of the molestations.
While victims’ groups praised the admission, they were aghast that neither the names of the perpetrators nor of those who had covered up the assaults were disclosed, The Associated Press reported on Friday.
Protesters demonstrate while blocking the street outside the Justice Ministry in Madrid in 2018.
Protesters demonstrate while blocking the street outside the Justice Ministry in Madrid in 2018. (Paul White/)