Article: The Editors of Commonweal on the Vatican s New 2024 Declaration (REVIEW ESSAY) - The Editors of the liberal lay Catholic magazine Commonweal published Dignity and Gender: Evaluating Dignitas Infinita on April 18, 2024. In the present essay, I continue my recent reflections in my OEN articles on the Vatican s new 2024 Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith titled Dignitas Infiniti, which was released on April 8, 2024.
Article: Jonathan Haidt on the Epidemic of Mental Illness in Gen Z (REVIEW ESSAY) - The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York University s Stern School of Business has published a disturbing new book about Gen Z, the generation born after 1995, titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Random House). He targets smartphones and social media.
Article: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D Eloia (1943-1990).
Article: Thomas J. Farrell on Drafting His Own Obituary - This admittedly short article rounds off two of my earlier OEN articles: (1) Thomas J. Farrell on Walter J. Ong, S.J. (dated November 7, 2023); and (2) Thomas J. Farrell on Thomas J. Farrell (dated November 17, 2023). The present article provides certain further information that was not included in either of those two previous OEN articles.
Article: John Dear on the Synoptic Gospels and Bottom-Up Nonviolence (REVIEW ESSAY) opednews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from opednews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.