On February 12, 2020, Pope Francis issued his new apostolic exhortation about the Amazon region -- addressed not only to practicing Catholics but also to all persons of goodwill. In my 4,000-word review essay "Pope Francis' ...

My 5,700-word review essay is about the American Jesuit classicist Claude Pavur's 2019 book In the School of Ignatius [Loyola]: Studious Zeal and Devoted Learning (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Institute of Jesuit Sources). ...

In my 4,500-word review essay, I begin with an overview of Andrew Hui's 2019 book A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princeton University Press). I then pivot to discussing certain related scholarly work, ...

In my 10,775-word review essay "M. David Litwa's 2019 Book About the Gospels and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I provide a detailed overview of the contents of Litwa's book How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean ...

My 5,500-word essay "Contextualizing Marshall McLuhan" reviews the life and thought of the Canadian Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), a convert to Roman Catholicism, up to about ...