Loving Dissent Father Charlie Curran has made a career out of standing up to the Vatican. By JIMMY FOWLER Charlie Curran doesn’t look like someone who’s doomed to be burned at the stake. At 72, with worn sneakers and rolled-up sleeves, sitting in his book-lined office at Southern Methodist University, he looks like the low-key thinking man and professor that he is. And yet, as a Catholic priest and brilliant religious scholar, his actions were apparently so heinous that an archbishop once accused him of “sowing scandal” among the faithful. What he taught was so scary that the Catholic Church’s...