Why Look at Racism Today? A Catholic Response

Bryan Massingale, the Msgr. Supple Endowment Fall Lecturer, is working with the US Bishops on the development of a pastoral letter on the sin of racism and is a Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Marquette University. He (S.T.D., Accademia Alphonsianum, 1991), [Systematics/Ethics], specializes in Roman Catholic moral theology with a focus on Catholic social thought, liberation theologies, African American religious ethics, and racial justice. His recent work applies Catholic social thought to the issues of affirmative action, racial reconciliation, environmental justice, and terrorism and the challenge of peacemaking.