A black and gay-identifying Catholic priest has accused the Trump administration of idol worship.
Fordham professor Fr. Bryan Massingale — who, according to his Fordham bio, is a priest with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee — received the Catholic Theological Society of America’s John Courtney Murray Award in June. Massingale used his acceptance speech, published Tuesday by Jesuit publication Outreach, to attack the Trump administration and praise “sexual diversity.”
‘Black flesh is a place of divine encounter, revelation, and manifestation.’
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The Trump administration removed Massingale’s book “Racial Justice and the Catholic Church” from the Naval Academy library in April 2025 as part of a wider crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal government.
“Why? Because that work is in direct opposition to the idolatrous ideology of
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