Entangled Responsibility
Entangled Responsibility - Clergy Sexual Abuse...And What It Has To Do With Loyola University Chicago
During the 2021 – 22 academic year, the Richard A. McCormick S.J. Chair in Moral Theology received a grant from Fordham University’s Taking Responsibility Project to document the sexual assault and abuse cases committed by Roman Catholic clergy associated with Loyola University Chicago and to create an online archive where the documentation would be hosted. In addition to the funding provided by Fordham, the McCormick Chair and the Hank Center for the Catholic Heritage provided funding to undertake the process of documentation and the creation of the online archive. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities provided their crucial expertise in the design of the online archive.
The Entangled Responsibility project examines the sexual abuse by Jesuits associated with Loyola University Chicago and conceptualizes the different dimensions of ethical responsibility, first within asymmetrical (mentoring and or pastoral/spiritual) relationships, but also within the institution of the university. The project deepens the understanding of responsibility in two ways: first, it proposes a social-ethical virtue ethics resting upon the principles of freedom, well-being, and mutual recognition as an alternative to a virtue ethics oriented by authority and obedience. Second, the social-ethical understanding of responsibility illuminates the phenomena of indirect responsibility and responsibility by implication. That is, the project proposes to develop the concept of “entangled responsibility” to describe how institutions are “entangled in history” (W. Schapp), implicated in different ways, indirectly, yet institutionally.
The concept of “entangled responsibility” will be employed not only to analyze the failure of the Jesuit provinces to respond adequately to the sexual abuse crisis but also the failure of Jesuit universities to respond appropriately to the incidents of sexual abuse that took place in their midst. The project therefore aims to begin a broader inquiry into institutional entanglement with harm, often harm of the past, and structural or institutional failures of responsibility. The project will lay the groundwork for further research, coursework, and communal practices of remembrance as part of the entangled responsibility regarding the sexual abuse.
https://entangledresponsibility.com/
Entangled Responsibility - Clergy Sexual Abuse...And What It Has To Do With Loyola University Chicago
During the 2021 – 22 academic year, the Richard A. McCormick S.J. Chair in Moral Theology received a grant from Fordham University’s Taking Responsibility Project to document the sexual assault and abuse cases committed by Roman Catholic clergy associated with Loyola University Chicago and to create an online archive where the documentation would be hosted. In addition to the funding provided by Fordham, the McCormick Chair and the Hank Center for the Catholic Heritage provided funding to undertake the process of documentation and the creation of the online archive. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities provided their crucial expertise in the design of the online archive.
The Entangled Responsibility project examines the sexual abuse by Jesuits associated with Loyola University Chicago and conceptualizes the different dimensions of ethical responsibility, first within asymmetrical (mentoring and or pastoral/spiritual) relationships, but also within the institution of the university. The project deepens the understanding of responsibility in two ways: first, it proposes a social-ethical virtue ethics resting upon the principles of freedom, well-being, and mutual recognition as an alternative to a virtue ethics oriented by authority and obedience. Second, the social-ethical understanding of responsibility illuminates the phenomena of indirect responsibility and responsibility by implication. That is, the project proposes to develop the concept of “entangled responsibility” to describe how institutions are “entangled in history” (W. Schapp), implicated in different ways, indirectly, yet institutionally.
The concept of “entangled responsibility” will be employed not only to analyze the failure of the Jesuit provinces to respond adequately to the sexual abuse crisis but also the failure of Jesuit universities to respond appropriately to the incidents of sexual abuse that took place in their midst. The project therefore aims to begin a broader inquiry into institutional entanglement with harm, often harm of the past, and structural or institutional failures of responsibility. The project will lay the groundwork for further research, coursework, and communal practices of remembrance as part of the entangled responsibility regarding the sexual abuse.
https://entangledresponsibility.com/