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...hard to be too conservative as a churchman in Spain, but Seville's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz has managed it. He has lambasted Dictator Franco for being too nice to Protestants and for allowing the Falange to be too "anticlerical," he has looked nostalgically back at the Inquisition, has damned and damped down such pleasures as movies and dances in his archdiocese of Seville...
Four months ago the Vatican moved against Cardinal Segura. appointed an archbishop coadjutor with equal rights and functions plus the right of succession. Last week the 74-year-old prelate suffered another setback. The Vatican authorized publication of a message from its Papal Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, congratulating the Chapter of the Seville Cathedral for condemning a recent leaflet campaign, "directed against the Pope, the Holy See, the Nuncio, and the Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies...
...Cardinal Segura promptly flew off to Rome in a huff. He was not on hand to welcome his new co-archbishop to Seville, but 2,000 Sevillianos were. They were delighted with the modest prelate when he described himself as "a figure humble and simpatico." He added: "With this first pastoral benediction I give you. I desire to enter into your hearts and souls...
...Segura's return from Rome last week, only his family and friends met him at the airport. Spaniards believe that he may soon withdraw from his Seville post...
Franco's hand was felt by another leading figure in Spanish Catholicism, who stood at the opposite end of the political spectrum from Cardinal Segura. He was Basque-born Father Jesús Iribarren, 42, editor of Ecclesia, official weekly of the Catholic Action group, and long regarded as a strong voice of freedom in Spain. Editor Iribarren roused the Caudillo's ire by publishing an article outspokenly critical of Spain's press censorship (TIME, May 31). Franco's press boss ordered Father Iribarren to quit, and his Minister of Information urged Iribarren's superior...