Loyal Dissent
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Loyal Dissent

Memoir of a Catholic Theologian

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Loyal Dissent

Memoir of a Catholic Theologian

About this book

Loyal Dissent is the candid and inspiring story of a Catholic priest and theologian who, despite being stripped of his right to teach as a Catholic theologian by the Vatican, remains committed to the Catholic Church. Over a nearly fifty-year career, Charles E. Curran has distinguished himself as the most well-known and the most controversial Catholic moral theologian in the United States. On occasion, he has disagreed with official church teachings on subjects such as contraception, homosexuality, divorce, abortion, moral norms, and the role played by the hierarchical teaching office in moral matters. Throughout, however, Curran has remained a committed Catholic, a priest working for the reform of a pilgrim church. His positions, he insists, are always in accord with the best understanding of Catholic theology and always dedicated to the good of the church.

In 1986, years of clashes with church authorities finally culminated in a decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by then-Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, that Curran was neither suitable nor eligible to be a professor of Catholic theology. As a result of that Vatican condemnation, he was fired from his teaching position at Catholic University of America and, since then, no Catholic university has been willing to hire him. Yet Curran continues to defend the possibility of legitimate dissent from those teachings of the Catholic faith—not core or central to it—that are outside the realm of infallibility. In word and deed, he has worked in support of more academic freedom in Catholic higher education and for a structural change in the church that would increase the role of the Catholic community—from local churches and parishes to all the baptized people of God.

In this poignant and passionate memoir, Curran recounts his remarkable story from his early years as a compliant, pre-Vatican II Catholic through decades of teaching and writing and a transformation that has brought him today to be recognized as a leader of progressive Catholicism throughout the world.

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Index

AAUP (American Association of University Professors), 41, 61, 153, 166, 175, 227
ABC Nightly News, 132
abortion question, 52, 72, 75–78, 98–99, 111, 118, 247, 257
absolute moral norms, 46, 72, 74, 91, 195, 204. See also historical consciousness
Absolutes in Moral Theology? (Curran), 32, 46
Academe (journal), 175
academic freedom: the common good and, 227
norms of, 57–59, 61–65, 143, 147–48, 150, 153, 155, 227–28
strike at CUA for, x, 35–43, 49, 133, 226. See also canonical mission; institutional autonomy
academic senate (CUA), 34, 36–37, 60–63, 88–90, 141, 144
the academy: institutional autonomy, 133, 139, 142, 147
post-Vatican changes in, 222–28
pre-Vatican focus, 219–22. See also academic freedom; Catholic University of America (CUA)
Adams, Barry, 163
Adler, Mortimer, 7
aggiornamento, 116–17, 211–12
Agnes Cecilia, Sr., 3
Alfaro, Fr. Juan, 10
Alfonsian Academy (Rome), 13–16, 197, 211
Alinsky, Saul, 39, 231
Allen, Joe, 176, 217
Alphonsus Liguori, St., 15
Alzeghy, Zoltan, 10
America magazine, 127
American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 41, 61, 153, 166, 175, 227
American Catholic Social Ethics (Curran), 198
American Ecclesiastical Review (journal), 28, 220
American Historical Review, 61–62
Andolsen, Barbara, 201
anthropology, 30–31, 79, 83–84, 192, 197
apostolic delegate, 34, 72, 100–101
Aquinas, St. Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas, St.
Aquinas Institute (high school), 2
Aquinas Institute (St. Louis), 157
artificial insemination, 31, 238 Ashley, Benedict, 157
Association for Rights of Catholics in the Church, 185
Association of American Universities, 27
Association...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Beginnings
  9. CUA: The Early Years
  10. The Uproar overHumanae vitae
  11. Growing Tensions and Maturing Theology: The Seventies
  12. Investigation and Condemnation
  13. More Trials
  14. Life after Condemnation
  15. My Moral Theology
  16. The Development of Theology in the Past Fifty Years
  17. My Relationship to the Catholic Church
  18. Notes
  19. Published Works of Charles E. Curran
  20. Index