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	Father Curran in Newsweek: Church Should Ordain Women, Change Numerous Teachings Catholic Culture June 8, 2010 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6581 Father Charles Curran, the priest of the Diocese of Rochester whose dissent from Catholic teaching led to his removal from a Catholic University teaching position in 1986 at the behest of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, has reiterated his support for homosexuality, contraception, and divorce in the June 5 issue of Newsweek. Ignoring the worldwide surge in seminarians-- the number increased from 63,882 in 1978 to 117,024 in 2008-- Father Curran, now 76 and a professor of human values at Southern Methodist University, says that clerical celibacy has led to a loss of priestly vocations. He concludes by calling for "rewriting the celibacy laws as an initial edit-- a change on the way to redressing the multitude of other needed reforms," including the ordination of women.
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