Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Coughlin and his demagogic speeches are the stuff that revolutions are made of. Men will revolt, to use his unique phrase, to "drive the money-changers from the temple," or to abolish the power of gold, without worrying about the essential need of middlemen, or of a currency system...
It was all very well for Father Coughlin to justify himself by papal quotation, thought many a devout Catholic last week, but the fact remained that popes clothe their crusades for social justice in solemn, stately Latin, not in hoarse words through a microphone. Most outraged of the Catholic clergy...
Father Coughlin countered by issuing a series of verbose statements in which he called Al Smith "the outstanding lay Catholic in the country." Declaring "I am not hedging at all," he hedged a little, toned down his story, hung it on one bishop, unnamed. He also said his own Bishop...
In a Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words:
Repercussion. Last week's revelations vexed English Roman Catholics. Cried Most Reverend Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool: "It is difficult to see what moral justification there can be for reading a Protestant service over the remains of these Roman Catholic princes, even though it were done on the plea...