A Geography of Modern Clergy Abuse: Confessionals, Cities, and the Country

American Catholic Historical Association 20
Friday, January 9, 2026: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
PDR 2 (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)
Chair:
Peter Cajka, University of Notre Dame
Papers:
Father Louis Miller, Archbishop Thomas McDonough, and the Country Church Strategy, 1972–76
Peter Cajka, University of Notre Dame
Racial Geographies of Abuse in the Black (Catholic) Metropolis
Matthew J. Cressler, independent scholar
Rural Space and the Topography of Clerical Abuse in the US Southwest
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico
Confessors Confessing
Terence McKiernan, BishopAccountability.org
Producing Margins: Redlining, Displacement, and Abuse in Roxbury
Susan Reynolds, Emory University
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