Word: herrera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop Herrera only became a priest 8½ years ago. A graduate in law and philosophy of the University of Salamanca, he gave up his law practice in Madrid to devote full time to Catholic activities and was soon recognized as leader of the Catholic party in Spain. In 1935, just a few months before the Civil War began, Angel Herrera decided, at 48, to become a priest...
...Pernicious" School. Ordained in 1940, after a shortened course of studies, Father Herrera was appointed assistant pastor in one of the poorest sections of Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking...
Though he had done little to attract attention, Angel Herrera is not the kind of man to escape it. In 1947, he was handed one of the toughest church appointments in Spain: he was named bishop of Málaga...
...ideal place for the new bishop to set up the kind of school he wanted, where priests could study social problems. Such old-line prelates as Seville's Cardinal Segura y Saenz (TIME, March 7) denounced the venture as "pernicious." But in January 1948, with 14 students, Bishop Herrera's school began...
Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...