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Above, St. Michael's school in Canada where Charles E. Coughlin studied and learned his great secret. Opposite page, a rare picture of his graduating class (1911) and an enlargement of its president, C. E. Coughlin. Right, the Father as he recently appeared when he broadcast his reply to General Johnson's attack from Royal Oak, Mich.
of serving the Church. That, living in the shadow of St. Mary's church in Hamilton, he never lost those dreams.
Imagine a boy's conception of how to become a real priest. . . . You learned how by turning to books. You read the Bible, the writings of the Saints, the classics, modern literature. You studied history and the beginnings of Christianity. You learned everything which helped towards a deeper understanding of religion. And — most important — you gave up the worldly interests which made up the lives of other men.
rB"»HAT was Charles Coughlin's conception— the dream that he cherished.
Still in knee pants, grim with foreboding because he was leaving home for the first time, Charles Coughlin trudged up the walk to the door of St. Michael's, filled with this ambition to learn everything that should make a priest such a wise and understanding person.
Yet within a year Charles Coughlin had changed completely his whole conception of how to train for the life ahead, and it is in that change his secret lies.
Charles Coughlin had seen, perhaps boyishly but nevertheless clearly, that his future (Continued on page 80)