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Newspaperman to Bishop. The U.S. hears less of a more potent group of Spanish churchmen, whose chief spokesman is a more modern man, Don Angel Herrera, 65, Bishop of Málaga. Bishop Herrera, onetime Madrid newspaperman who was ordained at 53, consecrated bishop at 60, believes, like Cardinal Segura, that Spain should be submissive to the church. But he insists that the proper role of the church is to guide, not goad, the Spanish people. Spain's pressing problems, Bishop Herrera holds, are the poverty of her people and the general backwardness of a clergy which...
...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
...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...