Recent outreach articles:
Nobody knows who the next pope will be: Time.com : April 2025
Peer review should be a dance, not a duel: with Frank Argote-Freyre: Inside Higher Ed: January 2025
What really happens when a new pope is elected?: America: October 2024
Humility: A Medieval Vaccine Against Modern Partisanship: Perspectives on History: July 2024
Recovering the lost virtue of humility for the common good: The Hill: April 2024
Even experts should be humble: Psyche: March 2024
What Faustus and Voldemort Can Teach Us About Humility: Circe Institute: February 2024
Ben Franklin's Model of Humility: Bergen Record: January 2024
What Dante teaches about humility: Salt+Light Media: November 2023
St. Augustine's Struggles with Pride: Villanova University Augustine Institute: November 2023
A Humbled Catholic Church?: Religion News Service: October 2023
Ignatius of Loyola and Humility: National Catholic Reporter: July 2023
Benedict XVI and Lessons for the Next Retired Pope: Fordham Center on Religion and Culture: January 2023
Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley: In gratitude to a historian who always asked, "So what?": National Catholic Reporter: September 2022
History is an Exercise in Humility: Fordham Center on Religion and Culture: November 2021
Humility is America's Missing Virtue: Newark Star-Ledger- NJ.com: October 2020
Praising God and Common Sense: Newark Star-Ledger- NJ.com: with Brooks R. Susman: April 2020
Papal Saints: Salt+Light Media: October 2019
Scarlet Fever: To Combat Clericalism, Reform Seminaries: Commonweal: April 2019 (co-author with C. Colt Anderson)
Why Americans must rise to the challenge of an aging population: Washington Post: March 2019
Elizabeth and Zechariah: Elder Patrons of Patience and Praise: CatholicDigest.com: November 2017
Embrace the Courage of Moderates: Philly.com: July 2017
Honoring our Elders: A Cautionary Tale from Ancient Greece: Bergen Record: March 2017
Simeon and Anna: Senior Citizen Prophets: Salt+Light Media: January 2017
Intolerance is Not an American Value: Ask the Founding Fathers: with Brooks R. Susman: Bergen Record: January 2017
Pope Francis: A Radical Moderate Reformer: Crux: December 2016
Pope Francis and the Wisdom of the Elderly: Crux: Sept. 2016
Pope Francis, Donald Trump, and a Wall: Newark Star-Ledger - NJ.com: February 2016 (co-author with Frank Argote-Freyre)
Spotlight and a changing Catholic landscape: Christian Century (Then & Now blog): February 2016
Deconstructing Pope Francis' humble leadership style: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com: September 2015
Books Change: To Kill a Mockingbird: Christian Century (Then & Now blog): April 2015
Pope Francis: Reality is superior to ideas: Christian Century (Then & Now blog): March 2015
Pope Francis channels Yves Congar's True and False Reform: The Tablet: January 2015
Crusader Bible exhibit at JP Morgan Library: America: Nov. 2014
The Outsiders: Sixteenth-Century Lessons in Reform: Commonweal: May 2013
First impressions of Pope Francis: CNN.com: March 2013
A Pope's Progress: Assessing Benedict's Legacy: America: March 2013
Pope Benedict's resignation: CNN.com: Feb. 2013
