In the book Pope Benedict XVI: An Introduction to His Theological Vision (Paulist Press, 2009), the American Jesuit theologian Thomas P. Rausch of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles discusses Ratzinger's interest in Guardini's thought (pages 66, 69-70, 122, and 125).
The lay Italian scholar Massimo Borghesi of the University of Perugia discusses Bergoglio's interest in Guardini's thought in his 2017 book in Italian The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Intellectual Journey, translated by Barry Hudock (Liturgical Press, 2018; esp. pages 101-141).
In Pope Francis' 2015 eco-encyclical, he repeatedly refers to Guardini's 1950 book translated into English as The End of the Modern World: A Search for Orientation, translated from the German by Joseph Theman and Herbert Burke (Sheed & Ward, 1956).
In Ong's first book Frontiers in American Catholicism: Essays on Ideology and Culture (Macmillan, 1957), he refers to Guardini's 1950 book by its German title and briefly discusses it (page 9).
Incidentally, Guardini's 1962 essay "Aesthetic-Theological Thoughts on [Gerard Manley Hopkins' posthumously published poem] 'The Windover'" (translated by Geoffrey Hartman and Christopher Levenson) is reprinted in the book Hopkins: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman (Prentice-Hall, 1966, pages 76-79), in which a selection by Ong is also reprinted (pages 151-159).
No doubt Guardini's negative view of modern industrialization and technology can be aligned with Hopkins' similar negative view, on the one hand, and, on the other, with Pope Francis' similar negative view. However, Ong himself eventually worked out a fundamentally more positive view of technology.
In any event, today Pope Francis uses Buber's terminology about encounter and dialogue, but without explicitly mentioning Buber. Thanks to the pope's use of Buber's terminology, perhaps more people today will be interested in Mendes-Flohr's accessible new biography of Buber.
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