Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some American newspapers it has been said that when Bishop Gallagher was in Rome he was given to understand that the Holy See approved completely the activities of Father Coughlin...
Primed to answer this were Bishop Gallagher and Father Coughlin as they faced the U. S. Press aboard the Rex. Declared the bishop: "[OsservatoreRomano] simply enunciated the self-evident truth, which can be found in any ecclesiastical book of etiquette, that you can't call a President a liar, even if it's true. . . . There was no criticism of Father Coughlin in Rome. Neither the Holy Father nor any of the high Vatican prelates ever discussed Father Coughlin with me. . . . I never said the Holy See fully approved of Father Coughlin's activities. I had no occasion...
When the Rex brought bishop and priest to shore, Bishop Gallagher cried to a crowd on the dock: "Father Coughlin is an outstanding churchman and his voice . . . is the voice...
...pair proceeded to a hotel where Father Coughlin found occasion to declare that a choice between Presidential Nominees Roosevelt and Landon was a choice "between carbolic acid and rat poison...
Shortly it seemed the Vatican might be doubling Archbishop Cicognani's fist, raising it for a blow. From Director Giulio Castelli of Rome's La Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming...