The University Commission on Gonzaga’s response to Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis released its 18-month report on Wednesday with recommendations for GU President Thayne McCulloh on how the university can progress as a Jesuit institution given its specific historical and geographic context. 

The report stops short of issuing a formal apology or putting particular parties at fault for the presence of priests with a history of sexual abuse on the university’s premises, but offers future strategies to the president for how to ameliorate the situation going forward. 

“The commission actually made recommendations that operationalize some of this,” McCulloh said. “For example, by recommending that we memorialize these events publicly, on the campus, then we acknowledge that harm was done and that people have suffered.”

The commission advises that a working group be assembled to plan the construction of a permanent “labyrinth” near the Jundt Art Museum. That memorial, as…