Christopher M. Bellitto

Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D., is professor of history at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. His latest book is Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue (Georgetown University Press, 2023).

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The upper portion of the sculpture Saint Ignatius Loyola, by Juan Martínez Montañés and Francisco Pacheco, is seen in the exhibit "The Sacred Made Real" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington Feb. 24, 2010. St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast day is July 31, taught that God is present in all things. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

Learning humility the hard way: Ignatius of Loyola's path to virtue

Christopher M. Bellitto describes how Ignatius' life and his Spiritual Exercises can teach us how to be lovingly humble. 

Jesuit Fr. John W. O'Malley, a church historian and former professor at Georgetown University, died Sept. 11 at the age of 95 at the Colombiere Jesuit Community in Baltimore. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)

Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley: In gratitude to a historian who always asked, 'So what?'

Appreciation: Apart from his achievements in many areas of historical scholarship, Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley embraced the importance of studying history itself. His question, one of his favorite phrases, was, "So what?"

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