Mark S. Massa, SJ

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

 is the Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...

 Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University

Fordham University

Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

 in New York.

Massa founded the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham in 2001 and served as its director until 2010.

Massa has written a number of books including Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? and Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team, which won the AJCU/Alpha Sigma Nu

Alpha Sigma Nu

Alpha Sigma Nu was founded at Marquette University in 1915 by John Danihy, S.J., Dean of Journalism. In his travels and reading, Father Danihy had encountered and admired honor societies...

 Award for Outstanding Work in Theology for 1999-2001.

Massa is currently working on a history of Catholic theology in the United States since the Second Vatican Council. He has served as the director of the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs

U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs

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Education

• Th.D., Church History, Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
  Weston Jesuit School of Theology
  The Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in Brighton, Massachusetts, United States is the graduate divinity school of Boston College and an ecclesiastical faculty of theology that trains men and women, both lay and religious, for service, especially within the Roman Catholic Church...
  
  
• M.A., History Department, University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
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• A.B., History and Theology, University of Detroit

Publications

• Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? New York: Crossroad Press, 2003.
• Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team New York: Crossroad, 1999.
• Charles Augustus Briggs and the Crisis of Historical Criticism Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.
• World Religions: A Sourcebook for Students of Christian Theology with Richard Viladesau Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1994.