Religion: Time for Boy Scouts?

The pontifical commission was not alone in its sharp split over the official Catholic stand on contraception. Students and faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America walked out last week to protest the firing of a popular professor, and once more, not only birth control, but an article in the National Catholic Reporter was involved.

Center of the uproar was a liberal theology professor. Father Charles E. Curran, 33. In an interview published by the N.C.R. last September, Curran was depicted as forecasting that Catholicism's dictation of moral doctrine is doomed, that it will eventually be replaced by a form of ethics...