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Before them stood a radio receiver. Spain's arch-conservative Pedro Cardinal Segura had assembled his council to pass judgment on Father Venancio Marcos of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, the "radio priest" who in a few years had built up from a handful of listeners on a single private station to a series of half-hour broadcasts over a twelve-station national network, with an audience of more than 5,000,000. From the loudspeaker came Father Marcos' cheerful voice in one of his weekly "Chats on Religious Orientation...
White-faced, Cardinal Segura rose. An attendant quickly switched off the radio...
...Leaves & the Roots. The following Sunday, from the 400-odd pulpits of the archdiocese of Seville, a pastoral letter was read, denouncing this "imprudent priest" and forbidding parishioners to listen to Father Marcos or discuss his broadcasts. Then Cardinal Segura instructed all his priests to deny absolution to any penitent who refused to pledge himself not to listen to the broadcasts...
Reduced Charge. In Los Angeles, jailed on suspicion of auto theft, ex-Convict Henry Segura swiped Cellmate Manuel Salazar's clothes and identification cards, paid Salazar's $25 fine for drunkenness and calmly walked out the front door...
Last week the pot boiled up again for all to see. Spain's stiff-necked Archbishop of Seville, Cardinal Segura, had last year issued one of his pastoral letters protesting even the rudimentary privileges the Franco government gives to Protestantism. This had set off a riffle of objections from U.S. Roman Catholics, who insist that Segura's views are typically Spanish and anachronistic. But one of Rome's top experts in ecclesiastical law, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, had more recently made a speech backing up Segura's strong views on the suppression of Protestantism, and last week...