Writing
Books
Administering Devotion: Sociability and Government in French Political Thought, c. 1770-1900Cambridge University Press, in preparation
Scholarly Essays
After Scylla and Charybdis: Pope Francis, civil society and the Catholic Church in the twenty-first century
Journal of Catholic Social Thought (forthcoming)
Beyond governance: Organizing higher education
Community Organizing, special issue: Organizing and Higher Education in a Time of Crisis (forthcoming)
Sovereignty, Europe and republicanism: Euroscepticism at the time of the French Referendum on the Treaty of Maastricht, 1992
Modern and Contemporary France, 34:2 (2026), 173–193
The young Jules Michelet and the sources of morality
History of European Ideas, 51:8 (2025), 1861–1878
Accounting for intellectual traditions in the history of ideas
Raisons politiques, 93:1 (2024), 83–98
Sin, grace and secular history: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard’s criticism of the anti-sacrilege law of 1825
In Aude Attuel (ed.), An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789–1870 (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)
Public Essays, Reviews and Journalism
The Practice of Belonging
STIR, Autumn 2026
The Human Soul of the Fight to Control AI
Jacobin, 1 September 2026
Christian Nationalism in Britain
Jacobin, 18 May 2026
Crisis of Belonging
Commonweal, 29 March 2026
Mass for Migrant Workers
Tribune, Winter 2026
Synodality, Popular Assemblies and Grassroots Participation (with Austen Ivereigh)
Report for the Vatican General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, September 2024
Not only with words: Synodality, Community Organising and Catholic Social Action (with Miriam Brittenden, Ana França-Ferreira and Angus Ritchie)
Report, Centre for Theology and Community (London), 2024
Self-Consciously Secular
Commonweal, 1 September 2023
When Italy’s Communists Painted Naples Red
Jacobin, 21 January 2021
Exclusive: In defiance of travel ban, US seminary in Rome ordered to send students back to home dioceses
Novena News, 16 March 2020
Pope accepts resignation of Barbarin, French cardinal accused of child abuse cover-ups
Novena News, 6 March 2020
Analysis: Salvini and the Italian Church: who’s using whom?
Novena News, 28 February 2020
My clericalism and Querida Amazonia
Where Peter Is, 19 February 2020
Querida Amazonia: a call for authentic inculturation
Where Peter Is, 12 February 2020
In Rome conference, populists, conservatives play off John Paul II against Francis, Europe
Novena News, 9 February 2020
Catholic Traditionalists look to politics for new sources of influence
Novena News, 5 February 2020
Traditionalists look to politics for new sources of influence
Where Peter Is, 5 February 2020
Is it time for US bishops to push back against TFP?
Where Peter Is, 17 December 2019
National populist organisation behind traditionalist opposition to Pope Francis
Where Peter Is, 7 November 2019
O influencer de Bolsonaro que tenta interferir no sínodo
Where Peter Is, 3 November 2019
The Bolsonaro influencer seeking to sway the Catholic summit
Where Peter Is, 26 October 2019
Müller admits shame but denies responsibility
The Tablet, 20 July 2017
Report confirms over 500 boys abused at top German Catholic school
The Tablet, 19 July 2017
Coptic Christians in Egypt told to halt church activities due to security threats
The Tablet, 18 July 2017
Venezuelan bishops defend ‘sovereignty’ of the people, warning Maduro seeks ‘socialist, Marxist and militaristic’ state
The Tablet, 17 July 2017
Two associates of Pope Francis accuse right-wing American Christians of practising ‘apocalyptic’ politics
The Tablet, 14 July 2017
Citizenship charges ‘too high’ says Church of England synod
The Tablet, 12 July 2017
Cardinal Pell has returned to Australia to face historic sexual abuse charges in Melbourne
The Tablet, 10 July 2017
Vatican says bishops must be ‘watchful’ of the quality of bread and wine destined for the Eucharist
The Tablet, 10 July 2017
Bishop Mario Delpini named as new Archbishop of Milan
The Tablet, 7 July 2017
Mexican priest found dead in his presbytery
The Tablet, 7 July 2017
Vatican denies allegations that Bambino Gesù hospital ‘cut corners’ to boost profits
The Tablet, 6 July 2017
Supporters set up fund to pay Cardinal Pell’s legal fees
The Tablet, 3 July 2017
Vatican investigates Catholic group after exorcism and claim that Francis is Devil’s man
The Tablet, 26 June 2017
‘Dubia’ cardinals go public with second letter requesting papal audience
The Tablet, 20 June 2017
Vatican group considers excommunicating Catholics convicted of corruption or mafia-related crimes
The Tablet, 19 June 2017
Laity may start to have greater say in the appointment of bishops, says member of the Council of Cardinals
The Tablet, 16 June 2017
Controversial new appointments as Pontifical Academy for Life widens perspectives
The Tablet, 14 June 2017
Turn ‘empty words’ into ‘concrete deeds’, Pope urges Catholics on announcing World Day of the Poor
The Tablet, 13 June 2017
City banks are getting ready to ditch London, it’s only a matter of time
CafèBabel, 9 October 2016
More content on the Continent
Quadrapheme, 8 July 2016
The View from Europe
Quadrapheme, 4 July 2016
Francis unlikely to use the word ‘genocide’ on visit to Armenia (with Christopher Lamb)
The Tablet, 21 June 2016
Francis brings over nine Syrian refugees from Greek camp
The Tablet, 20 June 2016
Priests who refuse baptism to babies of single mothers are ‘animals’
The Tablet, 17 June 2016
The Devil is in the detail: Why Pope Francis really rejected a donation from Argentinian president
The Tablet, 16 June 2016
Pope urged to plea for fellow Argentinian on death row in Texas (with Christopher Lamb)
The Tablet, 13 June 2016
New Vatican departments offer clues to the coming reform
Catholic Voices, 10 June 2016
Faith leaders can help stop leprosy stigma, say Vatican conference organisers
The Tablet, 8 June 2016