The Nation - News from April 13, 1988

Catholic University’s board of trustees revoked the Rev. Charles E. Curran’s authorization to teach in the name of the Vatican, but directed top board officials to seek a compromise with the suspended professor. The trustees’ action left Curran as a tenured faculty member of the Washington school, but without clear indication of what he might teach if he returned to the university that removed him from the classroom because of his dissent from church teaching on a variety of issues, including contraception and divorce. The move comes a week after a judge rejected the university’s request to dismiss a suit by Curran seeking his reinstatement. The university suspended Curran in January, 1987.