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...Spain, Bishop Herrera of Málaga has been viewed by politicians and conservative fellow prelates with disapproval and alarm. But today, tall, balding Bishop Herrera, 62, who runs a new social school for priests, can feel that the tide, with a little pushing from Rome, may be turning at last. This month the Pope gave permission for a project to establish similar social schools all over Spain...
...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...
Like most present-day doctors in Panama, Santo Tomás' Chief Pathologist José Miguel Herrera had never seen a yellow fever victim. Gorgas, Walter Reed and other early workers in Cuba and Panama had seen to that (see cut). But after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City. He sent part of the last man's liver to Washington. Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made it official...