Bryan Massingale

Professor at Fordham University

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Articles

The soul of America-from Martin Luther King to Trump

Jan 19, 2025 | americamagazine.org | Bryan Massingale

President Donald Trump being sworn in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on a childhood Bible given to him by his mother and Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. (Wikipedia Commons)Jan. 20, 2025, marks not only the beginning of a new presidential administration but also the day when we remember the legacy of the Rev.
The Francis Effect podcast: Discussing the election with Simone Campbell and Bryan Massingale

Nov 7, 2024 | ncronline.org | Bryan Massingale |Simone Campbell |Heidi Schlumpf |Daniel P. Horan

Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell (CNS/Tyler Orsburn); Fr. Bryan Massingale (GSR photo/Dan Stockman) In this episode of "The Francis Effect," NCR senior correspondent Heidi Schlumpf, columnist Daniel Horan and David Dault welcome their guests, Fr. Bryan Massingale and Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell, to look at the 2024 election and address the questions: How are we doing? How did we get here? and Where do we go from here? How do I listen?
A century of James Baldwin’s prophetic voice

Sep 23, 2024 | americamagazine.org | Bryan Massingale

James Baldwin in 1966 (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture). Author’s note: This essay uses an offensive racial epithet in citing James Baldwin’s work. I choose to use it to underscore the important insight that Baldwin meant to convey by using this inflammatory term. Every white person in this country—I do not care what he says or what she says—knows one thing.… They know that they would not like to be black here.
At the threshold of a shared future, LCWR holds a deeply moving conference

Aug 30, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Joyce Meyer |Bryan Massingale |Olivia Bardo

The 2024 Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly was a deeply moving few days for me. The speeches all seemed to incorporate a theme of "not yet," "interim," "liminal," "transitional," places in life that are uncomfortable for someone who loves clarity.
We need more than an apology for Pope Francis's homophobic slur, says gay priest

Jun 4, 2024 | outreach.faith | Bryan Massingale

Views Rev. Bryan Massingale / June 4, 2024Print this: I am a priest who is publicly open about belonging to the LGBTQ community. As a gay man, I was shocked and saddened by the Holy Father’s reported use of an offensive slur during a discussion with Italian bishops.
I’m a Catholic priest who fasts for Ramadan. Here’s what it taught me about Lent.

Mar 11, 2024 | americamagazine.org | Bryan Massingale

Several years ago, not knowing at all what it would entail, I Googled a question: How do you keep Ramadan? In the spring of 2019, after a series of high profile attacks on Muslim people in New York City and a reported rise in Islamophobia, I felt compelled to act in tangible solidarity with this vulnerable and targeted community. It just so happened that Ramadan was starting the next day. I decided I would observe its discipline of fasting as a way of accompaniment and solidarity.
White America has a selective memory of MLK’s dream

Sep 12, 2023 | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Bryan Massingale

Sixty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a young Black minister addressed what was the largest assembly of civil rights protesters in the nation’s history. He recounted the country’s legacy of broken promises over racial equality, which he described as checks returned marked “insufficient funds.” He described the “great trials and tribulations” that so many had endured: harassment, beatings, and the horror of being crammed in dank, narrow jail cells for their convictions.
White Christians still have a lot to learn from MLK

Jun 8, 2023 | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Bryan Massingale

Sixty years ago, a young Baptist minister was imprisoned for leading a struggle for equal rights and the full recognition of the humanity of Black Americans.
God made Black saints. The church whitewashed them.

Feb 21, 2023 | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Bryan Massingale

Last November I delivered the annual Mother Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic Studies at Villanova University. (November is when we recall the contributions that Catholics of African descent have made to our church.) Before my presentation, the university unveiled a painting of St. Augustine of Hippo, the patron saint of the university’s sponsors, the Augustinian Order.