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When such measures are not enough, tougher actions are often taken. Many companies use undercover agents and drug-sniffing dogs to root out narcotics on their premises. Says Larry Curran, vice president of First Security, a Boston firm: "We're doing 15 to 20 drug investigations per week for corporations right now. That is an increase of 100% from last year...
...turn of the Rev. Charles Curran, 51, a moral theologian at the Catholic University of America in Washington. Last week, after meeting in Rome with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curran told a press conference that the Vatican has judged his views on sexual ethics unacceptable. That could lead to his dismissal from the university and widen a growing rift between Rome and the Americans...
...Vatican first contacted Curran in 1979, sending a 16-page list of the "principal errors and ambiguities" in his writings. After several exchanges, Ratzinger last year wrote Curran that he must recant (which he refuses to do) or no longer be deemed a teacher of Catholic theology. A formal Vatican statement to that effect would end Curran's post at the university, where theologians work under church mandate because graduate religion degrees are granted under a papal charter...
...popular teacher who normally forgoes clerical garb, Curran was fired by Catholic University's bishop-dominated board in 1967 because of his liberal views, but was reinstated following a campus-wide faculty and student strike. After Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the traditional ban on artificial birth control in a 1968 encyclical, Curran rallied 600 Catholic academics and church professionals to endorse a statement that couples were justified in following their own conscience...
Other differences abound. The church vehemently opposes all abortions; Curran argues that they might be justifiable in extreme cases. Rome rejects sterilization on any grounds; Curran does not. The Vatican insists that "every genital act must be within the framework of marriage"; Curran thinks that premarital sex is acceptable under some circumstances and that loving homosexual acts can be morally licit in the context of a permanent commitment. He believes that the church should alter its ban on remarriage after divorce...