text: Creating that environment is even more necessary in the wake of the “so-called Trump effect” on racial justice and equality, said Fr. Bryan Massingale, professor of theology at Fordham University and author of Racial Injustice and the Catholic Church. In this “moment of stark clarity” Massingale called for the creation of a “powerful, robust vision” that would enable Catholic colleges to present “who we are and what we believe.”
  
  Fr. Bryan is one of the leaders of the future for the Catholic Church in America.  Hopefully he will be the first African-American cardinal.