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Loyal Dissent - Memoir of a Catholic Theologian (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Loyal Dissent - Memoir of a Catholic Theologian (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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"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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