This Holy Week 2019, Resurrection is pleased to welcome Father Bryan Massingale, S.T.D., Massingale is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and has served as a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, providing theological assistance on issues such as criminal justice, capital punishment, environmental justice, and affirmative action. He completed his formal education in Rome at the Pontifical Institute for Moral Theology, earning the degree, Doctor of Moral Theology, summa cum laude.
During his time here at Resurrection, Massingale will preach the Good Friday Service at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 19, 2019 and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, April 20, 2019.
An award-winning teacher, scholar, and activist, Massingale has authored two books and more than one hundred articles, book chapters, and book reviews. His monograph entitled, Racial Justice and the Catholic Church, received a First Place Book Award from the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada. His current writing projects explore the contributions of Black radicalism to Catholic theology and the intersections of race, sexuality, and faith.
Massingale currently serves as James and Nancy Buckman Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University and Senior Fellow in its Center for Ethics Education. Prior to his recent appointment at Fordham, he was Professor of Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee), where in 2009 he received that institution’s highest award for excellence in teaching. A leader in Catholic theology, he is a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a past Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and also serves on the faculty of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans.
Father Massingale will also be one of the panelists at Resurrection Catholic Missions’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, “Two Priests and a Professor: A Discussion on Racism and the Catholic Church” on Friday, June 14, 2019. The other panelists are Father Maurice Nutt, CsSR, DMin., former director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and author of a soon to be published biography of Servant of God, Sister Thea Bowman, FSPA, and Dr. Ernest Gibson III, professor at Auburn University.
Resurrection Catholic Missions of the South, Inc. hopes you will join us in welcoming this gifted scholar and presbyter to our Holy Week liturgies.