Word: hierarchical
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Charles Edward Coughlin as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. One is aged and ailing Pope Pius XI. The other is the bishop of Father Coughlin's own diocese, aged but spunky Michael James Gallagher. Without the explicit consent of one of these, no other Roman Catholic hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative old William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME...