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Catholic Herald
The Catholic Herald is a London-based Roman Catholic monthly magazine, founded in 1888 and a sister organisation to the non-profit Catholic Herald Institute, based in New York. After 126 years as a weekly newspaper, it became a magazine in 2014. In early 2023, a 50.1% controlling stake was purchased by New York based alternative asset firm GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (Luxembourg). It reports 565,000 online readers a month, along with 25,000 weekly registered newsletter subscribers and a print readership distributed in the US and UK, Roman Catholic parishes, wholesale outlets, the Vatican, Cardinals, Catholic influencers, and postal/digital subscribers.
With historical writers including Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and GK Chesterton making the Herald their spiritual home, it publishes leading Catholic writers, international news and comment from around the world, from George Weigel to Piers Paul Read. It describes itself as "a bold and influential voice in the church since 1888, standing up for traditional Catholic culture and values". In 2022, the Catholic Herald was nominated for Consumer Magazine of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards and won the PPA award for ‘Writer of the Year’, the first time the magazine had won a PPA Award. The Guardian have described it as having a "distinguished pedigree" and being "the nearest Roman Catholics in this country have to a proper weekly newspaper".
The Catholic Herald was established as a weekly newspaper in 1888. It was first owned and edited by Irish Derry-born Charles Diamond, a journalist and newspaper entrepreneur, until his death in 1934. In 1920, Diamond edited the Herald from jail after writing an editorial leader article that supported Irish nationalism and allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland.
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, a post he held until 1962. From 1888 to 1962, the Herald only had two editors and was based for many years in a large building on the corner of Whitefriars Street and Fleet Street opposite The Daily Telegraph building and close to its rival newspaper, The Universe. During his time as editor, he transformed it into a much respected intellectual newspaper, which often brought it into conflict with the more conservative members of the Roman Catholic Church. Circulation increased to over 100,000.
During the late 1930s, owner Vernor Miles published a number of articles, like Viscount Rothermere in the Daily Mail, which displayed some moral ambivalence towards the rise of fascism in Europe. The Herald, however, condemned Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts’ street fights, anti-Semitism and worship of State power over God.
De la Bédoyère's news editor was writer Douglas Hyde, also a convert who arrived from the Communist Daily Worker. After resigning from the party in 1948, he converted to Catholicism. After his conversion, he gained an international reputation in the late 1940s and 1950s as a critic of communism.
De la Bédoyère almost went to prison for criticising what he saw as Churchill's appeasement of the "godless" Soviet Union. It was a dangerous moment for the Herald when Churchill turned his ire on the magazine. The paper’s editorial on the Yalta Conference, in which De la Bédoyère strongly criticised Churchill and Roosevelt stance towards Stalin, lead to Churchill being reassured by his right hand man, Sir Desmond Morton, that De la Bédoyère was not a British traitor.
De La Bedoyere was followed as editor by Desmond Fisher. As editor of the Herald from 1962 to 1966 he covered the Second Vatican Council, after which he worked for RTÉ. He was in Rome in 1962 before the council was set up and covered the 1963 and 1964 sessions. Fisher’s Vatican II coverage caused some ire in the Catholic hierarchy, not least Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster, England. Indeed, the Catholic Herald's owners, likely influenced by Heenan, recalled Fisher to London.
Catholic Herald
The Catholic Herald is a London-based Roman Catholic monthly magazine, founded in 1888 and a sister organisation to the non-profit Catholic Herald Institute, based in New York. After 126 years as a weekly newspaper, it became a magazine in 2014. In early 2023, a 50.1% controlling stake was purchased by New York based alternative asset firm GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (Luxembourg). It reports 565,000 online readers a month, along with 25,000 weekly registered newsletter subscribers and a print readership distributed in the US and UK, Roman Catholic parishes, wholesale outlets, the Vatican, Cardinals, Catholic influencers, and postal/digital subscribers.
With historical writers including Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and GK Chesterton making the Herald their spiritual home, it publishes leading Catholic writers, international news and comment from around the world, from George Weigel to Piers Paul Read. It describes itself as "a bold and influential voice in the church since 1888, standing up for traditional Catholic culture and values". In 2022, the Catholic Herald was nominated for Consumer Magazine of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards and won the PPA award for ‘Writer of the Year’, the first time the magazine had won a PPA Award. The Guardian have described it as having a "distinguished pedigree" and being "the nearest Roman Catholics in this country have to a proper weekly newspaper".
The Catholic Herald was established as a weekly newspaper in 1888. It was first owned and edited by Irish Derry-born Charles Diamond, a journalist and newspaper entrepreneur, until his death in 1934. In 1920, Diamond edited the Herald from jail after writing an editorial leader article that supported Irish nationalism and allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland.
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, a post he held until 1962. From 1888 to 1962, the Herald only had two editors and was based for many years in a large building on the corner of Whitefriars Street and Fleet Street opposite The Daily Telegraph building and close to its rival newspaper, The Universe. During his time as editor, he transformed it into a much respected intellectual newspaper, which often brought it into conflict with the more conservative members of the Roman Catholic Church. Circulation increased to over 100,000.
During the late 1930s, owner Vernor Miles published a number of articles, like Viscount Rothermere in the Daily Mail, which displayed some moral ambivalence towards the rise of fascism in Europe. The Herald, however, condemned Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts’ street fights, anti-Semitism and worship of State power over God.
De la Bédoyère's news editor was writer Douglas Hyde, also a convert who arrived from the Communist Daily Worker. After resigning from the party in 1948, he converted to Catholicism. After his conversion, he gained an international reputation in the late 1940s and 1950s as a critic of communism.
De la Bédoyère almost went to prison for criticising what he saw as Churchill's appeasement of the "godless" Soviet Union. It was a dangerous moment for the Herald when Churchill turned his ire on the magazine. The paper’s editorial on the Yalta Conference, in which De la Bédoyère strongly criticised Churchill and Roosevelt stance towards Stalin, lead to Churchill being reassured by his right hand man, Sir Desmond Morton, that De la Bédoyère was not a British traitor.
De La Bedoyere was followed as editor by Desmond Fisher. As editor of the Herald from 1962 to 1966 he covered the Second Vatican Council, after which he worked for RTÉ. He was in Rome in 1962 before the council was set up and covered the 1963 and 1964 sessions. Fisher’s Vatican II coverage caused some ire in the Catholic hierarchy, not least Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster, England. Indeed, the Catholic Herald's owners, likely influenced by Heenan, recalled Fisher to London.