Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your complete article and photograph of Father Coughlin makes a distinct impression on me (TIME, July 27). One is "Oh what patience has our Holy Father at Rome." Second is that when any man calls our President a liar, especially a man in high places, he distinctly gives impetus to law-breaking and Communism...
...religious communities to live and work among Detroit's 600,000 Catholics. Yet the total of all these worthy deeds has brought the white-thatched old churchman less fame outside his diocese than the fact that he happens to be the ecclesiastical superior of Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin...
...make the visit "to the threshold" of Mother Church required of all bishops every three to ten years. With him was his friend and close colleague, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
...Father Coughlin is entitled to his own opinion, but I do not approve of the language he used. ... I approve of his general activities and his radio talks...
...days later, while in the U. S. Father Coughlin was offering a weaseling apology to President Roosevelt, U. S. newshawks in Rome began to hear what sounded to them like "high prelates close to the Vatican," talking anonymously like unseen antiphonal voices in a church choir...