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Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is an American moral theologian and Catholic priest. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.
The Charles Curran Case: From March 29, 1986. The Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, after having reviewed the matter with the Holy...
May 15, 2014 · Fr. Charles Curran, arguably the most influential U.S. moral theologian for the last 45 years, is easing back from full-time teaching, but he will continue to teach part time in Dallas, Texas,...
Apr 9, 2021 · Charles Curran remembers Hans Küng. News. Appreciation. Swiss-born Fr. Hans Küng, a prominent and sometimes controversial theologian who taught in Germany, died April 6, 2021, at age 93. He is...
May 12, 2014 · The Rev. Charles Curran has become a familiar figure at Southern Methodist University and its Perkins School of Theology, after 23 years as a professor. But these days, he says most of his undergraduate students don't know of his background as a Catholic priest who tangled with the Vatican.
Jun 25, 2018 · Charles E. Curran is the Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University. His latest book is Sixty Years of Moral Theology (Paulist Press).
May 30, 2024 · Professor Charles E. Curran is the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University. He is a Catholic priest and scholar who participated in controversies and changes in the Roman Catholic Church.
Sep 9, 2014 · Each of these keynoters touches themes that reflect the life and the theological mission of Charles E. Curran. My first keynoter is Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. In his Presidential Address to the Catholic Theological Society of America he said that Vatican II “implicitly taught the legitimacy and even the value of dissent.”
Apr 1, 1989 · Father Charles Curran has done the Catholic Church a great service. He has made himself the test case for the validation of the principle of religious freedom in the American university. In a landmark decision, Judge Frederick Weisberg of Washington, D.C., upheld Catholic University’s right to refuse to rehire Father Curran as a tenured ...
In April 1967, Charles E. Curran became a cause célèbre for priestly academic freedom when he was fired by Catholic University of America, supposedly (although the university gave no reasons for the dismissal) for his liberal views on birth control. The popular teacher chose to fight the ouster, and the Catholic University faculty voted four ...
