Farrell, Thomas2025-01-232025-01-232025This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269443See the above abstract.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.en-USPope Francis, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. FarrellScholarly Text or Essay