Farrell, Thomas2021-03-112021-03-112021-03This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219056See the above abstract.In my 6,600-word review essay "Massimo Faggioli on Pope Francis and on Vatican II, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I mention four books by the church historian and theologian Prof. Dr. Faggioli and use them as springboards to discuss the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). The four books by Prof. Dr. Faggioli are (1) Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States (2021), (2) The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis: Moving Toward Global Catholicity (2020), (3) A Council for the Global Church: Receiving Vatican II in History (2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of Vatican II), and (4) Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (2012, before Pope Francis was elected pope in 2013).enPope Francis, Vatican II, Second Vatican Council, Massimo Faggioli, Walter J. Ong, American Catholics, American Catholicism, Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII, Pope John-Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, Harvey Cox, Frans Jozef van Beeck, Thomas Cahill, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar, Thomas AquinasScholarly Text or Essay