Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only two men in the world have authority to discipline Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. One is aged and ailing Pope Pius XI. The other is the bishop of Father Coughlin's own diocese, aged but spunky Michael James Gallagher. Without the explicit consent of one of these, no other Roman Catholic hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative...
...General Johnson resigned as NRAdministrator, he had shown in his public speeches an old professional writer's picturesque gift of phrase. (As an Army officer he began by writing West Point stories for boys.) In March 1935, he employed this literary talent in his famed denigration of Radio-priest Coughlin and Louisiana's late Huey P. Long (TIME, March 18, 1935). Impressed, United Feature signed up the General to do a "lighting" daily column. Though Hugh Johnson Says began with a bang, it soon degenerated to a mere pop. Returning from abroad last April, Scripps-Howard...
...most evident that an orator who inveighs against persons who represent the supreme social authorities, with the evident danger of shaking the respect that the people owe to those authorities, sins against the elementary proprieties. The impropriety is greater as well as more evident when the orator is a priest...
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...
...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 of political parties...