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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the "Little Flower" of the Infant Jesus who died in young, frail sanctity in 1897, no woman of modern times is more famed among Roman Catholics than another frail young Frenchwoman who died in 1879. All the vast majesty of St. Peter's at Rome was needed for the ceremonies which will make a saint of Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes this week...
Into St. Peter's, hung with red-&-gold draperies and flaming with myriad chandeliers, are to crowd Roman and foreign notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
Accompanied by two detectives and a score of newsmen, a plumpish priest in Roman collar and rabat bustled through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal one afternoon last week. More police were waiting near the platform gate. Two nights before, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. radiorator, had whipped a prodigious Hippodrome crowd up into a red-hot frenzy of approval for President Roosevelt's monetary program. He had also stepped on some very important Catholic toes. Now, still parrying newshawks' questions, he swung aboard his train just as it pulled out, settled down for the journey back to Detroit...
...which brings me to the subject in hand. Why did the Austrian Roman Catholic Bishops suddenly order the clergy to refrain from all participation in political activity after December 15? For about fifty years, and especially in the last fifteen, the priests have played a major and often decisive part in the Austrian parliament, provinces, and municipal councils through the Christian Socialist Party, and more particularly in their more personal roles as keeper of the consciences of the faithful...
...people milled in the streets when old Henry (Uncle Henry) Morganthau's red Packard forced its way through the crowd with the aid of some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...