Books, Arts & Manners: Father Curran, ex Cathedra

Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom, by Charles E. Curran (University of Notre Dame Press, 272 pp., $27.95)

EXACTLY a year ago Father Charles Curran lost the case he had brought against Catholic University of America in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. In ruling against Curran, the presiding judge implicitly agreed with the university president’s contention that there is “an ecclesiastical limit” on theological dissent at CUA and that the board of trustees had the right to suspend Father Curran from teaching theology there. Curran chose not to appeal because “success on appeal was far from certain.” Instead he has made his case in Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom.

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Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom, by Charles E. Curran (University of Notre Dame Press, 272 pp., $27.95)

EXACTLY a year ago Father Charles Curran lost the case he had brought against Catholic University of America in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. In ruling against Curran, the presiding judge implicitly agreed with the university president’s contention that there is “an ecclesiastical limit” on theological dissent at CUA and that the board of trustees had the right to suspend Father Curran from teaching theology there. Curran chose not to appeal because “success on appeal was far from certain.” Instead he has made his case in Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom.