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".
Thanks for that -- a former Baptist who converted. No modernist there in my judgment.