Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1935 — Page 10

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COUGHLIN WINS PAPAL BACKING, WRITER HEARS

Radio Priest’s Adherence to Labor Encyclicals Is Reported Reason. BY FORREST DAVIS Times (prriil Wrltrr ROYAL OAK, Mich. March 21 •"But, my dear *lr. what the Holy Tather teachea, Father Coughlin preache*!'* ThU politely startling rejoinedr, I ara* told today, came rrom the papal delegate in Washington when a highly-placed ecclesiastic in the East quizzed him, unsympathetically, on the Royal Oak priests economic gospel. The reference, obviously, was to Father Coughlin's adherence to the labor encyclicals. The anecdote reached me in Detroit. It did not come from the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, nor anyone associated with the Shrine of the Little Flower. I repeat it as gossip from a seemingly reliable source because, if true, it sheds light on a question that has perplexed many persons. Namely, how does the plam-spoken reformer, a humble parish priest, stand with the highest authority in his church? More Strongly Intrenched At this moment the bluntly dynamic prophet appears to be more strongly intrenched within the Catholic fold than ever before. His bishop, the Very Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, so charitable. I am told, that he has exhausted his own resources to feed the poor of his diocese, continues to stand behind Father Coughlin. Attempts, if any, from within the church politically **to silence** him manifestly have failed. Furthermore, Gen. Hugh Johnsons headlong flight of personal Invective against the priest has rallied numerous Catholics—as likewise Protestants and Jews—who Were hitherto skeptical of his •‘radicalism" behind what they conceive to be Father Coughlin's ruggedly sincere person. But the controversy, invited by the general, undoubtedly has disclosed to Father Coughlin new enemies. It convinced him, if he had doubts, that the lot of a popular propagandist who seeks to reform a country's financial system contains more than beer and skittles. Powerful Enemies at Work The bursting mail bags at the shrine unfold the gratitude and affection of a multitude. But in quarters remote from this prairie suburb, enemies both powerful and ingenious resent Father Coughlin's growing hold on the masses. Echoes of resentment against the fight to nationalize the Federal Reserve, the reformist planks in the National Union for Social Justices 16-point

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program, reach the highly sensitized tower of the Little Shrine. Certain other powt .ful men, it is true, support Father Coughlin as a conservative fore**: vocalizing and arresting tides of discontent which might flow into more threateningly anti-capitalistic movements. Henry

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Ford, for example, occasionally telegraphs his approval after a Coughlin discourse. But Father Coughlin. I am told, believes that Gen. Johnson's will not be the last attempt to discredit his leadership. Hence he has learned to walk

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warily. He refuses to try the Johnson controversy in the newspapers; he is in a • virtual retreat against newspaper men. For the future he intends to concentrate on his broadcasts, confining himself to the “passionate crusade for social justice’’ and letting chips fall where they may.

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