Next, I was in the Jesuit order (1979-1987). As I mentioned, Father Ong was a Jesut, and Pope Francis was the first Jesuit pope.
Next, I taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth (1987-2009). When I was teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth, I published my award-winning book Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication (Hampton Press, 2000). My book received the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology in 2001, conferred by the Media Ecology Association on June 15, 2001.
After I retired from the University of Minnesota Duluth at the end of May 2009, I published my first OEN article "Why Obama Should Shun the Pope's Views on Abortion" on October 10, 2009. It was viewed by 1,565 viewers.
Subsequently, I published my OEN article "Robert Moore on the Optimal Human Psychological Development" (dated September 17, 2024):
In my OEN article of September 17, 2024, I sharpened my critique of the Roman Catholic Church's vision of individual personal sexual morality.
Subsequently, I further sharpened my critique to the anti-body heritage of the Roman Catholic Church in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word 665th OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025):
As of April 21, 2015, the day on which Pope Francis died, my OEN article of March 24, 2025, had been viewed 1,759 times - which, in my judgment, is a lot of views considering its extraordinary length.
In any event, it has always been a struggle for me over the years to articulate my objections to the Roman Catholic Church's vision of individual personal morality, and I am especially pleased by the criticism of the anti-body heritage of the Roman Catholic Church that I articulated in my 28,800-word 665th OEN article.
Subsequently, I wrote and published online a review essay with an extraordinarily long title: "Thomas J. Farrell's Reflections on His March 2025 OEN Article 'Fareed Zakarian and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy,' and Walter J. Ong's Thought" through the University of Minnesota's digital conservancy: https://hdl.handle.net/11299/271344
End of Disclosure
Now, over the years since Cardinal Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis in March 2013, I have published many OEN articles about Pope Francis - too many to recount all of them here. So I will simply highlight some of my OEN article about Pope Francis here, based on the number of views of each of them at OEN.
With 2,858 views, see my OEN article "Why Doesn't Pope Francis Support Freedom of Speech?" (dated January 28, 2015):
With 2,383 views, see my OEN article "Pope Francis on Jesuit Spirituality: The Power of the Christ Myth" (dated September 25, 2013):
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