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 Walter J. Ong, S.J. (REVIEW ESSAY) - For my 600th OEN article, I am writing to call your attention to my three articles and six reviews in the new issue of the online journal New Explorations. In my nine selections, I 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).
Article: A. E. Orobator, S.J., on Vatican II in Africa (REVIEW ESSAY) - Because I am interested in Africa, I want to highlight here the Nigerian Jesuit theologian A. E. Orobator s The Impact, Reception, and Implementation of Vatican II in Africa in the new 800-page 2023 book The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by the lay Catholic theologians Catherine E. Clifford of Saint Paul University in Ottawa and Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University in Philadelphia (pp. 657-675).
Article: A. E. Orobator, S.J., on Vatican II in Africa (REVIEW ESSAY) - Because I am interested in Africa, I want to highlight here the Nigerian Jesuit theologian A. E. Orobator s The Impact, Reception, and Implementation of Vatican II in Africa in the new 800-page 2023 book The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by the lay Catholic theologians Catherine E. Clifford of Saint Paul University in Ottawa and Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University in Philadelphia (pp. 657-675).