Browsing by Subject "Pope Francis, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell"

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    Pope Francis' 2022 Apostolic Letter, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2022-07) Farrell, Thomas
    In my 2,000-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2022 Apostolic Letter, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight certain statements that Pope Francis makes in his 2022 apostolic letter on the liturgical formation of the people of God, issued on June 29, 2022. In appropriate places, I point out how certain points he makes can be connected to the work of the American Jesuit cultural historian and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).
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    Pope Francis' 2023 Eco-Exhortation Laudate Deum ("Praise God"), and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version has not been published previously., 2023-10) Farrell, Thomas
    In my 4,000-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2023 Eco-Exhortation Laudate Deum ('Praise God'), and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight certain aspects of Pope Francis' new 2023 apostolic exhortation, with some attention also to his widely read 2015 eco-encyclical, on the one hand, and, on the other, relevant aspects of the mature thought from the early 1950s onward of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). Pope Francis is not familiar with Ong's relevant account of visuality in cognitive processing in our Western cultural history -- which, I suggest, is relevant to all aspects of the pope's critique of the dominant technocratic paradigm in Western culture in recent centuries. Nor is Pope Francis familiar with the hope that Ong holds out regarding our contemporary secondary oral culture (i.e., the culture associated with the communications media that accentuate sound).
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    Pope Francis' 2025 Autobiography, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2025) Farrell, Thomas
    In my wide-ranging and extremely associative 7,600-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2025 Autobiography, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I succinctly highlight Pope Francis 2025 300-page book, with Carlo Musso, titled Hope: The Autobiography, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon (Random House). In addition, I succinctly highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint louis University.