Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian (Moral by Charles E. Curran

By Charles E. Curran

Recounts the adventure of 1 of the top theologians of the Catholic Church.

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The statutes adopted in 1969 state that ‘‘the Catholic University . . ’’ It supports ‘‘an atmosphere of academic competence where freedom is fostered and where the only constraint upon truth is truth itself ’’ (par. 1). Unfortunately, subsequent events would prove that these words did not mean what they said. Needless to say, the strike also had a great effect on me. I came to CUA with little or no understanding of an American university. The Roman universities I had attended were really no more than theological schools.

The press, naturally, asked a lot of questions about my teaching, especially in the area of artificial contraception, but we tried to keep that issue from becoming the primary focus. We knew that on the narrow academic issue we could expect support from all corners of the campus. The university faculty met in McMahon Auditorium on Thursday afternoon, while 3,000 students held a rally outside McMahon. The faculty, after many speeches (including a very impressive one by Bob Hunt) and much discussion, finally voted 400-18 to support the faculty of theology.

Casey was not an intellectual but a hardworking, committed priest and bishop who had begun to open up a bit through his participation in Vatican II. He had approved my plan to bring some speakers in to the seminary occasionally for the continuing education of the priests. The first speaker was my professor, Father Bernard Ha¨ring. Later we had a workshop with Father Gus Weigel and Father John Sheerin, who were in Rochester as the first American Catholic observers for a meeting connected with the World Council of Churches.

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