Coughlin, Chas. E. Sermon: A Sandy Foundation. Royal Oak, Mich.: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1932. [11201]
Self-wraps, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 16 unnumbered pages. Good. Pamphlet.
This sermon rails against the financial bailout of the banks without first giving relief to the workers. He states that during the last fifty years the economic system of the United States has consisted of getting in and out of eight national major depressions and seven minor ones. The good Reverend declares that bankers are trying to restore their prosperity of the 1920s.
"Restoration of the former prosperity and economic conditions, which have produced these so-called cyclic cataclysms, is in nowise desired by the millions of jobless men who foresee their progeny keeping up the ceaseless tramp upon the highways and streets of a nation that is ruled by the god of gold and which has rejected the Gospel of Christ...there shall be no more unjust taxation by international banker or by greedy industrialist upon the bodies and souls of the American laborer or of the American farmer." - p. (9).
This has the Imprimatur of †Michael James Gallagher, D. D., Bishop of Detroit.
Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), b. Hamilton, Ontario; d. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Coughlin was educated at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto (Ph.D. 1911), was ordained a Catholic priest (1916), and taught philosophy and English at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario. He then served as parish priest for several Michigan congregations before being sent to found a parish at Royal Oak, Michigan. There he established the Shrine of the Little Flower, "remaining there until 1966. Coughlin began an effective radio ministry in 1926 in an effort to explain Roman Catholicism after the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in the churchyard of his church."
His broadcasts soon became more political in orientation than strictly religious. He was an outspoken anti-Communist, a denouncer of international banking systems, a defender of the lower classes, and was accused of anti-Semitism.
"In 1934 Coughlin organized the National Union for Social Justice and through the magazine Social Justice (1936) was able to promote his views." He opposed Roosevelt and his policies and denounced the entry of the United States into WWII, calling it a British-Jewish-Roosevelt conspiracy.
"Coughlin was eventually forced off the air by church occastonally writing tracts denouncing communism and Vatican II." - R. L. Peterson, Dictionary of Christianity in America.
