The Coughlin-Fahey Connection: Father Charles E. Coughlin, Father Denis Fahey, C.S. Sp., and Religious Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1938-1954

Mary Christine Athans

P. Lang, 1991 - Religion - 265 pages

This study of the theological roots of the anti-Semitism of Father Charles E. Coughlin, famous 'radio priest' in the United States between the World Wars, discovers in the writings of the Irish theologian, Father Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., a theological rationale which Coughlin used to justify his anti-Semitic utterances after 1938. Fahey, who studied in France and Rome during the anti-Modernist era, imbibed the conservative ideas prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in that period and translated them into English in Ireland thereby making them available to Coughlin, the Protestant leader Gerald L.K. Smith, and others with an anti-Semitic orientation in the United States. The discovery of Fahey's papers in a seminary basement in Ireland (including letters of Coughlin's after he was 'silenced'), sheds new light on Coughlin's theology.

Contents

• JewishChristian Relations in the United States: 1
• The Life and Times of Denis Fahey C S Sp: 13
• Faheys Theology of History: 71
• Fahey and The Jewish Question: 113
• The CoughlinFahey Connection: 153
• Significance of the CoughlinFahey Connection: 209

About the author

The Author: Mary Christine Athans, B.V.M., is Associate Professor of Church History at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN). She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, CA, and has long been involved in the Jewish-Christian dialogue. She is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and is currently preparing a volume on Jewish-Christian relations in the United States.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Coughlin-Fahey Connection: Father Charles E. Coughlin, Father Denis Fahey, C.S. Sp., and Religious Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1938-1954; American University Studies, 07]; Volume 102 of American university studies: Theology and religion, ISSN 0740-0446
• Author: Mary Christine Athans
• Publisher: P. Lang, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 11, 2009
• ISBN: 0820415340, 9780820415345
• Length: 265 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Ecumenism & Interfaith; Religion / Judaism / General; Social Science / Discrimination