Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty liar!" interrupted a shrill, hysterical voice...
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...
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...
...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...
Bishop Gallagher: "In talking with prelates who asked what all the hullabaloo was about, I gave them a pretty picture of all that Father Coughlin was doing. But some objected, There is a spot on your picture. He called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with...