Religion: Priest v. Press

When Roman Catholic churchmen take part in worldly affairs they usually do so unobtrusively, reversing the tactics used such persons as Los Angeles' loud Methodist "Bob" Shuler on the radio and Virginia's astute Methodist James Cannon Jr. on the stump and in the newspapers. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit is a blaring Roman Catholic exception. His voice as blatant as Preacher Shuler's, his words as un-clerical as Bishop Cannon's, he is known to large sections of the U.S. as a rousing, throbbing radiorator on the "Catholic Charrch" and, more lately, on the tangled affairs of "Detroy-it." It has...

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