Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
19 p.
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Source Publication
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Source ISSN
2157-586X
Abstract
Based on the talk he delivered during the 2010 Annual Meeting, Massingale here tackles head-on the unvoiced questions with which most of us have struggled at some point in our careers and ministries. He begins by unveiling the conflicted ramifications of ‘authentically black and truly Catholic’. Echoing Copeland’s reference in Volume IV to the price that black scholars and theologians must pay to “speak and act and live in truth” (p. 75), Massingale explores Malcolm X’s call for Black Nationalism and its synthesis and coexistence with Integrationism in current Black Catholicism. Finally, he asks a series of haunting questions about what it means to be a Black Catholic in terms of our identity, our consciousness, and the needs of the Black community. Might “Black” and “Catholic” be oxymorons?
Recommended Citation
Massingale, Bryan, "Malcolm X and the Limits of 'Authentically Black and Truly Catholic:' A Research Project in Black Radicalism and Black Catholic Faith" (2011). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 251.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/251
Comments
Published version. Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Vol. 5, (2011): 7-25 Publisher Link: http://www.bcts.org/. © 2011 Black Catholic Theological Symposium. Used with permission.