The Catholic Herald

The Catholic Herald is a London-based Roman Catholic magazine, published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It reports a total circulation of about 21,000 copies distributed to Roman Catholic parishes, wholesale outlets and postal subscribers. About a 1,000 of this total are distributed in the Republic of Ireland. The magazine's editor-in-chief is Damian Thompson.

History

The Catholic Herald was established as a newspaper in 1888 by Derry-born Charles Diamond, who owned and edited the paper until his death in 1934. Diamond was an outspoken and controversial figure, described by one of his successors as "the kind of a man who made a good many enemies". On 8 January 1920 he was arrested and charged with publication of an article that allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland. Diamond died on 19 February 1934. After his death the paper was bought by Ernest Vernor Miles, a recent convert to Roman Catholicism and head of the New Catholic Herald Ltd. Miles appointed Count Michael de la Bédoyère as editor. De la Bédoyère's news editor was writer Douglas Hyde (not to be mistaken for the Irish politician), also a convert who arrived from the Communist Daily Worker.