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When a high-ranking Roman Catholic prelate takes a scornful swipe at religious tolerance and storms at "benevolence towards Protestantism," as Spain's Cardinal Segura did last week (TIME, March 17), many U.S. temperatures go sailing. For whom or what does Cardinal Segura speak...
...answer is that Cardinal Segura speaks for the oldest tradition of the Spanish church-one that has come down the years with stubborn strength since the power of the Moors was broken in the 13th century. But today many a Spaniard believes that Cardinal Segura is obsolete. Segura insists 1) that the people are incapable of self-guidance, and 2) that they need to be saved from themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild...
...year-old cardinal bears down hard on heresy and what he regards as licentious customs. He has managed to suppress Seville's traditional church dancing at Christmas, ban movies accepted in the rest of Spain, and separate men & women at all religious gatherings. Says one critic of Segura: "A saint, had he been born in the 15th century, a bore in the 20th...
...cardinal took a swing at Baptist Harry Truman for his recent press conference remark that he is not very fond of the present government of Spain. It showed, said Cardinal Segura, a "dislike of the Spanish people." But he seemed even more concerned about Spain's own regime: "The spirit of Catholics is worried over fear that, under the pretext of politics, concessions gravely prejudicial to religion may be made...
...Cardinal Segura's own Seville last week, a group of young Roman Catholics anticipated the cardinal's remarks with a more direct protest against toleration. A gang of well-dressed young men burst into the tiny, secluded Protestant chapel of St. Basil, struck Pastor Santos Martin Molin in the face, poured gasoline over the altar and tried to set the church afire. Said a Spanish government spokesman: "A negligible, isolated incident." In Madrid, a Protestant pastor brandished a pamphlet published by a Catholic organization, in which Protestants were denounced as "libertines, women of easy virtue and traitors...