Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, (see p. 61), got on Pennsylvania's ballot anyway when his supporters filed petitions qualifying him as candidate of the "Royal Oak" Party...
Early one misty Manhattan morning last week Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin boarded a Government cutter, went down New York Harbor to Quarantine. There the radiorating Detroit priest climbed into the Italian liner Rex, hurried to an upper deck where waited his bishop, grey, gnarled Michael James Gallagher...
Soon as the pjiest had made his obeisance by kneeling and kissing Bishop Gallagher's Episcopal ring (see cut, p. 62), the two churchmen greeted each other as man to man. Bishop Gallagher: "Well, how are you?" Father Coughlin: "I am fine, Your Grace. And how are you?" The bishop beamed. Then the two faced the Press...
Last July Father Coughlin in the course of a political speech in Cleveland called President Roosevelt a "betrayer and liar." Bishop Gallagher ordered his priest to retract, later sailed for Vatican City to make Episcopal reports to executives of the Holy See and obeisance to.the Pope. In Vatican City, Bishop Gallagher heard off-stage voices variously blaming and praising Father Coughlin's political activities. Since no prelate had chosen to speak out clearly on his own authority, the Detroit bishop decided that, on the whole, the Vatican approved Father Coughlin, and so declared to the Press (TIME...
Last week, day before Bishop Gallagher landed in Manhattan, Vatican City's semi-official newspaper, Osservatore Romano, re-opened the mysterious Coughlin case with this editorial...