Farrell, Thomas2023-10-232023-10-232023-10This version has not been published previously.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257721See the above abstract.In my 2,600-word review essay "Sister Tracey Horan on Pope Francis and the Collective, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight Sister Tracey Horan's article "Can the church change? It's all about the collective" in the National Catholic Reporter (dated October 20, 2023). In it, Sister Tracey Horan discusses the synod on synodality that is currently underway at the Vatican -- at the behest of Pope Francis. In addition, I highlight relevant points from 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).enSister Tracey Horan, Pope Francis, Walter J. OngScholarly Text or Essay