Abstract

RODRIGUEZ AVILA, Adán. The Usurious Problem according to El Tiempo Catholic Criticism against the Liberal Regime, 1883-1891. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2023, n.65, pp.121-148.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2023.65.77807.

This work aims to analyse the editorial treatment of usury by El Tiempo, a Catholic newspaper during the Porfiriato, according to the new political history approach, not as an economic theme. The focus of this work lies on the writing and the political stand of the authors, keeping in mind that such texts aimed to discredit liberalism and to promote a Catholic alternative to social problems like usury. This is the first study on the subject which concentrates exclusively on said newspaper, which has allowed us to delve into the social thought of lay Catholicism before the Rerum novarum milestone. The results suggest that an original Catholic social thought developed in those years, which in turn encourages us to rethink classical works on Catholicism in Mexico.

Keywords : Church; Mexico; Porfiriato; Catholicism; press; usury; liberalism.

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