Texas Bishop Chastises Catholic University for Hosting Dissident 'Theologian'

AUSTIN, Texas, October 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - St. Edwards University, a Catholic academic institution in Austin, Texas, has been called to task by its local Catholic bishop for hosting self-proclaimed, 'Catholic theologian', Father Charles Curran.

Bishop Gregory Aymond of the Austin diocese has issued a letter to his diocesan priests requesting that they not publicize the lecture that is scheduled to be held Thursday, October 18th at the St. Edward's campus as part of the Most Reverend Bishop McCarthy Lecture Series.

...In 1986, at the recommendation of then-Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope John Paul II officially forbad Curran from teaching at any Catholic school and stripped him of the title of 'Catholic theologian'.

It should be noted that this was a full 18 years after Curran's public dissent and repudiation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae...on the steps of Catholic University of America, mind you, with nary a whimper from those in charge at CUA. And he was allowed to spread his 'theology' with impunity, poisoning the minds of countless priests and others.

According to Diaz, retired Bishop John McCarthy, and name-sake of the lecture series, is involved in the speaker selection. While she could not confirm how involved McCarthy is in all other lecturer selections, she stated that it was the retired Bishop who had extended the formal invitation to Curran. "The reason that Father Curran is coming [to St. Edward's] is because Bishop John McCarthy asked him."