About Christopher J. Lane

Christopher J. Lane, PhD, is a Professor of History at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. His book is entitled Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2021), and he continues to write about vocational discernment in historical, theological, and pastoral perspective. His recent pieces include “Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival” (The Catholic Historical Review, 2023), “Augustine and the Bullfight” (co-authored with Dixie Dillon Lane, currentpub.com, 2023), and “Newman and a Historian’s Craft” in Vélez, A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought (CUA Press, 2022). He is an Oblate of St. Benedict and a layman of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.