Article: Pope Francis on the Climate Crisis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In 2015, Pope Francis (born in 1936; elected pope in 2013) emerged as a towering public intellectual on the world stage with his widely read eco-encyclical titled Laudato Si (meaning Praise Be to You ). On October 4, 2023, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1181-1226), Pope Francis renewed his concerns about the climate crisis in his terse new apostolic exhortation titled Laudate Deum ( Praise God ).
Article: Jeff Jarvis on the Age of Print and the Age of the Internet (REVIEW ESSAY) - The American journalist Jeff Jarvis (born in 1954) has published the accessible new 2023 book The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet (Bloomsbury Academic). I discuss his book in connection with 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).
Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horan s superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.
Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horan s superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.
Article: Walter J. Ong versus Pope Francis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In recently published remarks, Pope Francis characterizes conservative anti-Francis American Catholics as being backward-looking not forward-looking as he sees himself. But he himself is not sufficiently backward-looking regarding the Doctrine of Discovery. The American Jesuit scholar Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) suggests that we need to be both backward-looking and forward-looking.