Word: laga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...laga, where feudal-minded landowners have long held the workers in hungry ignorance, has the lowest percentage (40%) of practicing Catholics in the country. In the uprisings of 1931, 36 Málaga churches were burned; during the Civil War the Málagans killed every priest. It was an 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...