Anti semitic father coughlin biography
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Charles Coughlin
American Catholic priest (1891–1979)
Charles Edward Coughlin (KOG-lin; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian–American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit.
Anti semitic father coughlin biography
He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue,[1] he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience.
During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.[2]
Coughlin was born in Ontario to working-class Irish Catholic parents.
He was ordained to the priesthood in 1916, and in 1923 he was assigned to the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Coughlin began broadcasting his sermons during a time of increasing anti-Catholic sentiment across the globe.
As his broadcasts became more polit