Word: coughlinism
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...James retired into the wings to put the finishing touches on the aria which he sang to the United Press last night. "We are a very small group of people who are not anti-Catholic," James protests, adding that he opposes only "political priestcraft". Hitler and Coughlin have used the same trick: "We don't hate all Jews, only scheming, Communist Jews." Again, James admits, "We do wear red shirts as a picturesque touch." Picturesque fellow Hitler...
VATICAN CITY--Authoritative Vatican quarters today denied that the Holy See had instructed Archbishop Mooney of Detroit to deliver an ultimatum to the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin to cease broadcasting on political and racial subjects...
Listeners-in on the Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin's radio program last Sunday heard as pompous and ominous a whoop-de-do as ever came out of Royal Oak, Mich. The hour began, as usual, with soft religious music. Then, instead of the accustomed rabble-rousing baritone, came the voice of an announcer urging listeners to tell their friends to tune in. More music. Then the announcer, in almost a fall-of-Warsaw manner: "I am instructed to say: Father Coughlin will not address you today." Again music, followed by: "I am instructed to say: Pay no heed...
What was cocky Charlie Coughlin up to now? Guarded statements to the press, by Detroit archdiocesan officials, revealed that Father Coughlin's speeches had long been passed upon by a special archdiocesan censorship committee. Possibly, said the Detroit archdiocesan chancellor, Father Coughlin had declined to alter last Sunday's speech in accordance with the censors' suggestions...
Since Catholic censors deal not with matters of fact but of faith and morals, the Detroit committee has had plenty of headaches over the slippery Coughlin discourses. Reputedly Father Coughlin several Sundays ago said something to which the censors had objected. Last Sunday's hocus-pocus suggested that the radio priest, expecting continued censor trouble, was building up a big issue to make the rabble roar again...