Recent outreach articles and essays:

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