Article: Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong s 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler s new 2024 book Who s Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican s just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.