text: Curran is one of the giants in theology in the 20th and 21st centuries.  The Vatican stripped his license to teach in pontifical universities or on pontifical faculties -- i.e., those chartered by the Vatican. They did not (because they could not) issue an order preventing him from teaching in other Catholic institutions. Any (non-pontifical) Catholic university or college in the country (or the world) could have hired him. In an effort to continue teaching at Catholic University, he offered to teach social ethics (not sexual ethics) in the School of Philosophy (not the School of Theology.) The offer was rejected. No Catholic school in the country was willing to hire him, though there was nothing (other than cowardice) to prevent them from doing so. Now in his eighties, he continues to teach, speak and write as a professor at Southern Methodist University. He is and has always been a priest in good standing.