Charles E. Coughlin Quotes
The Rome-Berlin Axis is serving Christendom in a peculiarly important manner.
Coughlin and his fascist colleagues were supporters of Hitler and Mussolini. After his excesses, he was disciplined by the Vatican.
Charles E. Coughlin, 1891-1979, Catholic Priest, Union Party Co-founder, Editorial in his magazine, Social Justice
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Extremist, hate filled, right wing conservative radio tak shows were not invented in the 21st century. Charles Edward Coughlin, a Roman Catholic Priest who was finally reigned in by the Vatican, started his anti Democratic, anti-Semetic, racist radio broadcasts in 1926 and attracated a hugh audience of Americans, most of whom were disillusioned by the politicians of the day. After the Great Depression in 1929, he drew disillusioned and un or marginally employes people whe began to believe the scapegoating of blaming the depression on the minorities. When FDR assumed the Presidency and acted to relieve the crises people gradually abandoned the Hate Priest who tried to organziae a right wing Political Party in 1936 but was defeated badly. See related quotes for some examples of his extremism.
This is an important quotation because it shows that Franco was not only a Fascist but one who supported and approved of Hitler personally and his criminal programs. Most Spaniards have thereafter regretted that the Spanish Dictator could take such a murderous and inhumane position on behalf of the Spanish people. Franco was supported only by some of the very wealthy, part of the military and the Catholic Church leadership. The latter also makes this quotation important, in that it is very doubtful that the Spanish church leaders would support Hitler if the Pope and the Vatican were opposed to Hitler and the Nazis. Yet some Vatican representatives have maintained that the Pope was definitely opposed to Hitler and Nazism, but the evidence for this is not strong. This quotation tends to lend more credence to the Papal critics.
A little over a decade later the struggle began.
Although a fervent Nazi, he detested Hitler. When Hitler consolidated power, one of the first things he did in 1934 was to order his guards to murder Strasser, just as Strasser had feared.
- Born: October 25, 1891
- Died: October 27, 1979
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Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin or the radio priest, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts. He was forced off the air after his rhetoric became anti-Semitic and fascistic.
