The Catholic Herald

The Catholic Herald
Type Magazine
Owner(s) Sir Rocco Forte , Lord Black of Crossharbour
Editor Luke Coppen
Founded 1888
Headquarters Herald House, Lambs Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ
Circulation 23,000
Website www.catholicherald.co.uk

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.

History

The Catholic Herald was established as a newspaper in 1888.[1] It was first owned and edited by Derry-born Charles Diamond until his death in 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, also a convert who arrived from the Communist Daily Worker.[2] De la Bédoyère almost went to prison for criticising what he saw as Churchill's appeasement of the "godless" Soviet Union.[1] In the 1980s, as Peter Stanford became the editor, the publicaton openly supported left-wing politics in South America.[1] In the later 1990s and early 2000s, the publication veered to the right, criticising Jesuits.[1] The new and current editor, installed in 2004, has taken a more embracing stance towards Catholics of all political hues.[1]

The online version of the magazine includes articles from the print edition of The Catholic Herald, as well as web-only content, such as the coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s April 2008 trip to the United States. The site was revamped in November 2013. In December 2014 the Herald became a magazine, with a revamped website covering breaking news.[3] A relaunch party on 11 December 2014 was attended by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Princess Michael of Kent.[3] The magazine is currently owned by Sir Rocco Forte and Lord Black of Crossharbour.[3][4]

Editors

Its editors have included:

Contributors

Contemporary contributors

Past contributors

Past cartoonists

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Herald of Change". The Guardian. August 2, 2004. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Kevin Morgan. "Obituary: Douglas Hyde", The Independent (London), 29 September 1996
  3. 1 2 3 "Catholic Herald relaunch party". Tatler. December 11, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Black is back among friends and enemies". London Evening Standard. October 24, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2016. On Friday, however, his Lordship returns to the real world when he attends a quarterly board meeting at the Catholic Herald, where he remains a joint major shareholder.
  5. ↑ Reid, Stuart (January 24, 1998). "OBITUARY: Desmond Albrow". The Tablet. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Gerard Noel, Catholic Herald editor – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. July 27, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Coppen, Luke (September 30, 2016). "A note to our readers". The Catholic Herald. p. 3. Since we became a magazine in 2014 we have published articles by AN Wilson, Cardinal Pell, Howard Jacobson, Libby Purves, Peter Hitchens, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ross Douthat.
  8. ↑ "Is the media biased against the Pope?". The Daily Telegraph. September 15, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2016. Catholic Herald blogger Milo Yiannopoulos discusses whether some parts of the media have been biased against the Pope.
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