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...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 was plump, garrulous Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn who stormed at Father Coughlin: "The man is an infernal nuisance. He has gone mad with popularity. . . . Members of his Church despise him. . . . His Bishop is even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop...
Meanwhile statements were flying thick & fast over Spellbinder Coughlin's accusation that Alfred Emanuel Smith, foe of the Roosevelt program, had gone with two Catholic bishops to the House of Morgan to arrange a loan for his Empire State Building. Al Smith warmly denied this, adding: "From boyhood I was taught that a Catholic priest was under the divine injunction to 'teach all nations' the word of God. That includes the divine Commandment: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...
...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 stood...
This Bishop Gallagher indeed did. Genuinely fond of Father Coughlin who caused his Bishop's rugged features to be perpetuated in a figure of the Arch angel Michael on his "Charity Crucifixion Tower" which radio receipts made possible, the Bishop has declined to interfere even when he disagrees with Father Coughlin's notions. Last week, disagreeing again, he nevertheless said: "No heresy has been preached. Father Coughlin in his addresses is advocating the principles set down by Leo XIII and Pius...
...Father Coughlin's favorite pronouncements, which he has uttered in his throbbing brogue in many a Sunday broadcast, is that of Statesman Leo XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...