This paper’s official birthday was in 1888, but as the editor’s article in this month’s issue reminds us, this year is the 140th anniversary of one of the three papers that ultimately merged into the Catholic Herald when Charles Diamond, a journalist of the old school and a combative Irish nationalist, established the low-priced Irish Tribune on 13 December 1884. Unlike the Tablet, which was effectively under the supervision of the bishops and was an establishment periodical, the Herald began as a paper for ordinary Catholics.