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henrymakow.com – Dec 26, 2019

Father Charles Coughlin. Click to enlarge

Via his popular radio show and weekly newspaper Social Justice, Charles Coughlin, the Canadian-born clergyman and orator exposed the Communist agenda of the Fed from 1930 until 1942. 
By 1934, Coughlin was the most prominent Roman Catholic speaker with a radio audience that reached 30 million people every week. He was receiving more than 10,000 letters every day and that his clerical staff numbered more than a hundred. He foreshadowed modern talk radio and televangelism.
Even in a Great Depression, with this kind of influence, it was impossible to throw off the banker yoke. 

Clearing Father Coughlin’s Name 

By Mark Anderson — Abridged by henrymakow.com

While utilizing his classic Irish brogue and his uniquely powerful and near-hypnotic delivery, Charles Coughlin’s … “unforgivable sin” was his measured but factual revelation of heavy Jewish control of the banking establishment, as well as deep Jewish involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution that murderously overthrew Christian Russia.
For this, the notorious “anti-Semite” label that Father Coughlin endured when he was alive has, in effect, been “nailed” to his memory, to posthumously “crucify” him. (To hear Coughlin ably defend himself against shallow screams of “anti-Semitism in his day, listen here.)
Yet, amid the cruel calumny hurled at Coughlin back in his day and today, no one has ever bothered to ask: Was he really an anti-Semite? Or did he simply state uncomfortable facts while bringing the message of Christ to all peoples, including the Jews, for the priestly purpose of saving souls?
For the record, Coughlin’s view was that Germany’s National Socialism and Communism were basically variants of a centralized dictatorship, the former being nationalist and the latter internationalist in scope.

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