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| Shakespeare and the Catholic question
Marylander and web-reader, Glen Cascino, brings to the Shakespearean authorship debate the evidence that William Shakespeare of Stratford was connected with the recusant Catholics of Elizabethan England. This, he thinks, amply explains the dearth of records about his life, and the seeming disconnect between it and his writings. |
| Reforming our thinking about courtship and sexuality
Web reader and full-time pro-life worker William Craig expands on the themes raised by Kathleen van Schaijik in issue 7. He shows how important a right understanding of courtship and sexuality is for overcoming the culture of death. |
| Is St. Thomas's thought egoistical?
FUS Philosophy Professor, Patrick Lee, addresses a subtle but important point of dispute among Catholic philosophers. He tries to show that the notion that love according to St. Thomas is essentially self-centered is based on a misunderstanding of the Angelic Doctor's writings. |
| Distributism or the Free Economy?
Further developing the Concourse discussion on economics and Catholic social teaching, FUS alumnus Kevin Schmiesing says he agrees with distributists such as Thomas Storck in their fundamental aim of a more just and humane society, but he points to some problematic tendencies in distributism as it has been presented so far in the Concourse. He argues that the Holy Father's emphasis on personal freedom for all genuinely good acts and laws my not be adequately accounted for in a distributist system. |
| Thank you, thank you!
FUS junior, Catherine Egan, expresses her gratitude for the courtship article, and her hope that this deeper Catholic understanding of love will take root. |
| A personalist point regarding economics
FUS senior Philip Harold commends Thomas Storck for his presentation of distributism, but urges caution in our ideas about how it might be implemented. We have to take great care to appeal to human freedom and desire, rather than imagine that we can change people by making them conform to a better economic system. |
| Arrogant idealism
FUS alumnus and Director of Alumni, Jason Negri, disputes again with Ben Brown's idea of education. He dislikes the assumption that Newman's idea of university life should be normative for all schools, and proposes that we look at alternative theories of education, such as that give by St. Bonaventure. |
| The influence of Puritanism
Alumnus Jeff Zare sees a parallel between the Protestant notion of courtship as critiqued by Kathleen van Schaijik, and the Protestant mistrust of fantasy in fiction. |
| Prize announcements
The winners of the fifth annual Concourse Grand Prize and the second annual Concourse Baby Grand Prize announced and congratulated! |
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