Vatican Authority and American Catholic Dissent: The Curran Case and Its Consequences

Crossroad Pub Co, 1987-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Crossroad [Published Date: 1987]. Hardcover, 208 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black paper over Boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] There are sharply divided views on the correctness of the Vatican's action in removing Father Charles Curran's license to teach moral theology at the Catholic University of America. For some commentators. the major concern is the narrow but important issue of the locus and extent of authority in the Church. For others, the primary issue is the nature and function of the theologian in the Church. For still others, it is the probable impact within and outside the Church of a number of moral issues, including abortion. sterilization, homosexuality, and divorce One further concern is that of the impact on American higher education: Will academic freedom as now defined in Roman Catholic institutions be maintained or limited? This concern is heightened by the proposed schema that would increase church control over all Catholic institutions of higher education. These are some of the issues raised by the Curran case and explored in the chapters of this book. The contributions by leading Roman Catholic and, in two cases. Protestant scholars build on presentations by Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles and Father Curran himself. The contributors, expressing a variety of viewpoints, address themselves to all aspects of this complex issue, which has major consequences not only for Roman Catholics and their institutions but, given the forceful moral leadership assumed by the Church in the United States, for American society as a whole. Contents include: Introduction by William W. May; The Magistcrium and Theological Dissent by Archbishop Roger M. Mahony; Authority and Dissent in the Roman Catholic Church by Charles E. Curran; Dissent in Moral Theology and Its Implications by Richard A. McCormick; The Curran Case and the "American Church" by James Hitchcock; The Vocation of the Theologian by Marlin E. Marty; Dissent in the Church by Michael Novak; Catholic Moral Teaching and the Limits of Dissent by William E. May; Authority and Magisterium by Joseph Komonchak; by Authority and Credibility by Thomas P. Rausch; Character and Community: Curran and a Church Coming of Age by Anne E. Patrick; The Implications of the Curran Case for Academic Freedom by Rodger Van Allen; Faith and Freedom in Catholic Universities by Joseph A. O'Hare; Moral Discourse in the Public Arena by Margaret A. Farley; Catholic Sexual Teaching: Context, Function, and Authority by Lisa Sowle Cahill; Contributors.