{"id":2642131,"date":"2026-08-08T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-proclaimed-queer-priest-blasts-trump-in-award-reception-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:06:12","slug":"self-proclaimed-queer-priest-blasts-trump-in-award-reception-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-proclaimed-queer-priest-blasts-trump-in-award-reception-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Proclaimed Queer Priest Blasts Trump in Award Reception Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fself-proclaimed-queer-priest-blasts-trump-in-award-reception-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2642131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent event involved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archbishop-of-kansas-city-joe-biden-should-stop-defining-himself-as-a-devout-catholic\/\" title=\"Archbishop Of Kansas City: Joe Biden \u2018Should Stop Defining Himself As A Devout Catholic\u2019\">catholic priest<\/a>, Fr. Bryan Massingale, who received the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America. During his acceptance speech, he criticized the Trump governance and expressed support for gender and sexual diversity. Massingale highlighted that his book, &#8220;Racial Justice and the Catholic Church,&#8221; was removed from the U.S.Naval Academy because it opposed certain nationalist ideologies he views as idolatrous. He denounced Christian nationalism and called for activism against what he perceives as societal idolatry, advocating for a vision of the world where all people flourish equally. Massingale is also working on a new book titled \u201cDreaming While Black: The Poetics of Justice,\u201d which seeks to incorporate Black experiences into Catholic theology. In his speech, he discussed the presence of LGBTQ+ theologians within Catholicism, frequently enough operating in the &#8220;open closet,&#8221; and emphasized the importance of challenging societal and institutional idolatries to promote justice and inclusivity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a self-described queer Roman Catholic theology professor received an award, he used his speech to bash the Trump administration and commend \u201cgendered and sexual diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Bryan Massingale, a priest with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/academics\/departments\/theology\/faculty\/bryan-massingale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor<\/a> at Fordham University, received the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in June.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-the-media-tries-to-wash-their-hands-of-andrew-cuomo-remind-them-of-these-comments\/\" title=\"When The Media Tries To Wash Their Hands Of Andrew Cuomo, Remind Them Of These Comments\">award ceremony<\/a>, which was published on July 14 by the Jesuit site <a href=\"https:\/\/outreach.faith\/2026\/07\/rev-bryan-massingale-on-black-theology-lgbtq-catholics-and-the-future-of-the-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outreach<\/a>, Massingale noted that his book \u201cRacial Justice and the Catholic Church\u201d was removed from the U.S. Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy? Because that work is in direct opposition to the idolatrous ideology of white so-called \u2018Christian\u2019 nationalism that is the heart of the immoral projects being advanced by our nation\u2019s administration,\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/black-gay-priest-catholic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blaze Media<\/a> reported that the book had been removed under a crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion materials promoted by the federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novus Ordo priest and professor Fr. Bryan Massingale (in full communion, of course!): \u201cBlack flesh is a place of divine encounter, revelation and manifestation\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8UZeCdmee\">https:\/\/t.co\/T8UZeCdmee<\/a> This is the insanity you get if you follow the logic underlying Liberation Theology and apply\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Novus Ordo Watch (@NovusOrdoWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NovusOrdoWatch\/status\/2078137835249611236?\">July 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Massingale also decried \u201cChristian nationalism\u201d as an ideology proclaiming \u201cAmerica was willed by God to be a place where the descendants of Europe should flourish under the rule of white, conservative, heterosexual men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that those who differ from that identity only have that place in our nation\u2019s history, institutions and even physical spaces that they allow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He referred to supposed efforts to forbid \u201cthe teaching of Black enslavement\u201d and the \u201cLGBTQ social struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massingale further claimed that his book was removed from the shelves of the U.S. Naval Academy because \u201cit named idolatry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur task, for the sake of God\u2019s people, is to risk being banned \u2014 to call out, name, protest, criticize and denounce the idolatry of the present in the name of the God of life, who desires abundant shalom for all. For all without exception,\u201d Massingale continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause God\u2019s vision of the world is one in which all flourish, without exception. As Catholic theologians, we are called to see the world as God does. To dream God\u2019s dream for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massingale said he is \u201cfrantically trying to finish\u201d another book called \u201cDreaming While Black: The Poetics of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dare to dream a different world because if the resurrection of Jesus and the descent of the Spirit mean anything, they mean that reality is not a closed system,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnpacking that truth of what God has done is what Catholic theology and ethics would look like if it took the Black Experience, in all its gendered and sexual diversity, seriously as a dialogue partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massingale noted elsewhere in the speech that in the field of \u201cCatholic queer theology,\u201d there have \u201calways been more or less \u2018out\u2019 Catholic LGBTQ theologians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many reasons \u2014 personal, political and ecclesial \u2014 they did Catholic theology in what I call \u2018the open closet,\u2019 where others could know you are gay as long as there was no public acknowledgment or discussion of that fact,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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