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Editorial
Jump Start
The editor explains the disappearance, reappearance, and new focus of the University Concourse.
Articles
Time travel: is it the future or is it fantasy?
FUS alumnus Ben Brown argues that unlike many subjects of science fiction, time travel is essentially impossible.
A new kind of scandal
Taking his lead from a growing number of prominent Catholics, Mark Fischer points to the seriousness of the crisis now facing the Church, and says the old defenses no longer suffice to pacify the faithful.
'The Fellowship of the Ring': the film is not the book.
Tolkien fan and AMLS student, Jason Negri, analyzes the strong and weak points of Peter Jackson's landmark film.
The economic role of the medieval guilds: continuing the distributism discussion.
Thomas Storck advances the on-going discussion of the economic implications of the social encyclicals, showing (in reply to his critics) that distributism offers a real and workable alternative to capitalism and socialism.
Abusing NFP
Re-introducing an earlier Concourse topic, Kathleen van Schaijik criticizes 'providentialists' for misunderstanding and misrepresenting the Church's teaching on Natural Family Planning.
Short takes
A plea for the promotion of the Tridentine Rite, Michael Houser
The mysterious difference between the sexes., Scott Johnston
It's not the Vatican, it's the laity, Kathleen van Schaijik


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