Loyola University Maryland

Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation

About the Speaker

Bryan Massingale is a priest in the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. In addition to his role as professor at Fordham University, Massingale holds a senior fellowship at the University’s Center for Ethics Education. He is the president of the Society of Christian Ethics, former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and former convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium.

He has written two books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and book reviews. His monograph “Racial Justice and the Catholic Church” received a First Place Book Award from the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada. Massingale also wrote a major document for Catholic Charities USA, “Poverty and Racism: Overlapping Threats to the Common Good.”

He frequently addresses issues of racial and sexual justice in outlets including National Public Radio, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, the Associated Press, HuffPost, and Canadian public radio. He earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology in moral theology in Rome at the pontifical institute for moral theology.