Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only two men in the world have authority to discipline Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. One is aged and ailing Pope Pius XI. The other is the bishop of Father Coughlin's own diocese, aged but spunky Michael James Gallagher. Without the explicit consent of one of these, no other Roman Catholic hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative...
...Cincinnati, directly under Churchman McNicholas' archiepiscopal nose, Father Coughlin turned up to address a mass meeting of his National Union for Social Justice. In fine oratorical fettle he intemperately roared: "When any upstart dictator in the U. S. succeeds in making this a one party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is a radical. The Bible commands 'increase and multiply,' but Mr. Roosevelt says to destroy and devastate. Therefore I call him anti-God and radical...
...matter of ecclesiastical etiquette, Father Coughlin had presumably asked and received Archbishop McNicholas' permission to speak within the limits of his archdiocese. Any further responsibility, the organizer of the Legion of Decency was prompt to disclaim. Cracked he: "As the public and responsible teacher of morality in this community I cannot let pass statements attributed to Father Coughlin in the daily press. When Father Coughlin says, within the limits of this diocese, that he advocates the use of bullets . . . I must on moral grounds protest and condemn such a statement. . . . I must condemn the statement which seems clearly...
When a newshawk asked whether Father Coughlin would get a "second rebuke" like the recent editorial in the semi-official Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano (TIME, Sept. 14), Bishop Gallagher angrily pounded his old fist on his desk, snorted: "The Osservatore Romano has no authority over me. As for all these reports from Vatican City, the officials there told me 'we never give out interviews.' There never was a rebuke from the Vatican to Father Coughlin...
...Philadelphia, into the preserve of Denis Cardinal Dougherty, sped Father Coughlin two nights later. To a National Union rally in the Municipal Stadium he delivered an equally strong paraphrase of his remarks: "This program of destruction [AAA] is unChristian. It is anti-God; it is just downright asinine. . . . The causes which beget Communism are not removed in America. . . . If and when ballots will have proven useless . . . I shall not disdain using bullets...