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The Reverend Charles E. Coughlin
(1891-1979), pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower,
Royal Oak, Michigan, passed in early Depression days from
weekly radio sermons (in a rich dulcet voice) to radio
talks on money and economics attacking "international
bankers". In 1932, he supported the candidacy of Franklin
Roosevelt, proclaiming "Roosevelt or Ruin", but very
shortly turned against the New Deal. Increasing
anti-Semitic comments, a large tolerance for Hitler's
Germany, intemperate attacks on American political
leaders, and support for the Union Party's Lemke ticket
in 1936 swelled the ranks of his followers but drew
reprimands from the Vatican. In 1937, Coughlin was
attacked in the Michigan Catholic by the new
Archbishop of Detroit, later Edward Cardinal Mooney, but
was not completely silenced until federal threats of a
sedition trial in 1942.
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