Among Catholic priests in the United States, few are African American and few are openly gay.
NEW YORK -- Parishioners worshipping at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Harlem are greeted by a framed portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. -- a Baptist minister named after a rebellious 16th century German priest excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
The Vatican holds that gays and lesbians should be treated with dignity and respect, but that gay sex is “intrinsically disordered” and sinful. But even in Wisconsin, racism was common. Massingale said his father couldn’t work as a carpenter because of a color bar preventing African Americans from joining the carpenters’ union.
“The first parishioner to greet me at the door said to me: ‘Father, you being here is the worst mistake the archbishop could have made. People will never accept you.‘”“I’m not going to let the church’s racism rob me of my relationship with God,” he said. “I see it as my mission to make the church what it says it is: more universal and the institution that I believe Jesus wants it to be.”
Conversely, Catholic schools were among the first to desegregate and some government officials who opposed racial integration were excommunicated. “I realized that no matter what the church said, God loved me and accepted me as a Black gay man,” he said. Massingale has a different vision of the church: one where Catholics enjoy the same privileges regardless of sexual orientation.
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