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==Anti-Semitism==
==Anti-Semitism==
From 1936 Coughlin began to express admiration for [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]]; by 1938 he was attacking [[American Jews]]; ''Social Justice'' published extracts from a forgery called ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]''. He set up the "Christian Front", an anti-Semitic organization suppressed by the FBI in 1940; it was responsible for physical attacks on Jewish families on the east coast.<ref>Stephen H. Norwood, "Marauding Youth and the Christian Front: Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York During World War II," ''American Jewish History'' 2003 91(2): 233-267 </ref> In 1938, following [[Holocaust#Crystal_Night|Kristellnacht]] in Nazi Germany, he blamed the Jewish victims for the assaults they had suffered.
From 1936 Coughlin began to express admiration for [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]]; by 1938 he was attacking [[American Jews]]; ''Social Justice'' published extracts from a forgery called ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]''. He endorsed the "Christian Front", an anti-Semitic organization suppressed by the FBI in 1940; it was responsible for physical attacks on Jewish families on the east coast.<ref>Stephen H. Norwood, "Marauding Youth and the Christian Front: Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York During World War II," ''American Jewish History'' 2003 91(2): 233-267 </ref> In 1938, following [[Holocaust#Crystal_Night|Kristellnacht]] in Nazi Germany, he blamed the Jewish victims for the assaults they had suffered.
==Suppressed==
==Suppressed==
By the late thirties, pressure was growing from both inside and outside the Church to stop Coughlin's broadcasts. Several major networks refused to carry his talks, or insisted on prior approval of his scripts; but he only ceased broadcasting upon receipt of a direct order from the Bishop of Detroit in 1942. He remained a parish priest but stayed totally out of the limelight.
By the late thirties, pressure was growing from both inside and outside the Church to stop Coughlin's broadcasts. Several major networks refused to carry his talks, or insisted on prior approval of his scripts; but he only ceased broadcasting upon receipt of a direct order from the Bishop of Detroit in 1942. He remained a parish priest but stayed totally out of the limelight.