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Rev. Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University professor of Human Values in the Perkins School of Theology at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, delivered the lecture, "The Catholic Church Today and the New Pope," on Feb. 16 in Rehm Library. The talk was drawn from Fr. Curran's recent book, The Moral Theology of John Paul II (Georgetown University Press, 2005).
Fr. Curran taught at the Catholic University of America for 25 years. In 1986, he was pronounced not fit to teach Catholic theology by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) because of disagreement over church teaching on sexual ethics. Fr. Curran, a priest in good standing of the diocese of Rochester, N.Y., has taught for the past 15 years at the Perkins School of Theology and continues his research, writing and teaching as a Catholic.
Fr. Curran, who has served as president of three national scholarly societies of theology and ethics, has written extensively in the field of moral theology, including The Catholic Moral Tradition Today: A Synthesis (Georgetown University Press, 1999) and Catholic Social Teaching, 1891-Present: A Historical, Theological, and Ethical Analysis (Georgetown University Press, 2002). He is an expert in fundamental moral theology, social ethics, the role of the Church as a moral and political agent in society, and Catholic moral theology.
The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
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