Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This paper presents the contours of a new book that charts the necessity of Catholic institutions to know their history and navigate submerged memory, in order to be part of the project of repair today. Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Institutional Reparation (Fordham University Press, 2025), sets out a roadmap for navigating memories of institutional complicity in the evils of White supremacy that have been death-dealing in the United States. With micro-histories of some among the ghosts who haunt specific Catholic institutions – of university and parish – the paper details some ways of navigating memories of harm toward institutional reparation.