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Father Coughlin was a Roman Catholic priest who used radio to reach a weekly audience of 30 million Americans. He railed against Jews, bankers, and eventually, democracy and capitalism. How were his radical views taken by his Catholic higher-ups and the rest of the nation?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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