CATHOLIC TIMES, THE

THE CATHOLIC TIMES. - English Catholic weekly, founded in London by Mgr James Nugent (1822-1904), the great social propagandist of Liverpool, in 1867 under the title The Northern Press, which in March 1872 became C. T. With the full approval of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, it devoted itself to an intense campaign for social justice along the lines of papal encyclicals, seeking to safeguard, within the present industrial structure of society, the interests of the poorer classes. While fiercely opposing every idea of class struggle, it spared no criticism of capitalist abuses and at the same time worked to foster good understanding between employers and workers on the basis of a reciprocal sense of duty.