Is the writer a modernist? (just something to ponder.)
St. Jerome's feast day is today, BTW.
Saint Jerome: Doctor Of Biblical Studies
Men can't be feminists.
I wouldn't say that St. Jerome was a 'feminist' simply that he acted as Christ did; treated women as equals in the sight of God to men.
No.
No no no no no.
It never ceases to amaze me how far some people will go to project modern mindsets and systems of thoughts on people who lived among entirely different world views.
Why can't people accept that the man simply lived in the imitation of Christ?
There's a great quote of St. Jerome's I once used in a letter to the editor. It was taken from a letter to a Roman matron who had written to him about the difficulty of helping her young son learn to read. St. Jerome suggested she have some small blocks made and the letters put on those blocks so the child could, "make play a road to learning." I would say he was a very wise and kind man.
A little self-profile of Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P. - I presume it is the same young man:
From the article's content, I think he just wrote a headline and introduced the subject in a manner that might intrigue a current day reader unfamiliar with that aspect of Jerome's life. There's no hint of "since Jerome did x, we should go a step further and do y".
What a wonderful man. He did seem to be ahead of his time.