John L. Allen Jr. is an American journalist and author who serves as editor of the Catholic news website Crux, formerly hosted by The Boston Globe and now independently funded. Wikipedia
Born: 1965 (age 59 years)
Books
Opus Dei
2005
The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know
2013
The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
2009
All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
2004
A People of Hope: Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.
2011
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
2013