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Article: Curran, Smith update birth-control debate. (theologians Charles E. Curran and Janet Smith)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 11, 1994
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ADDISON, Texas -- An overflow crowd of 1,200 turned out to hear one of the chief public defenders of the church's teaching on artificial contraception and one of its principal critics square off in a debate.
The Oct. 23 debate between Fr. Charles Curran of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Janet Smith of the University of Dallas, a private Catholic liberal arts college, drew three times the expected number of people to the Harvey Hotel in Addison, a Dallas suburb.
The predominantly young audience, including a large crowd from the University of Dallas, showed partiality for Smith, but partisan audience members from both sides expressed polite, ...