The launch of the American edition of the Catholic Herald brings to these shores our own version of a journal that has been making British Catholic history since 1888. Such well-known British names as Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written for it in the past; GK Chesterton loved the Herald so much that he advertised it in public. Today, Britain’s most talented Catholic writers follow in their footsteps in the Herald’s pages. This US edition comes to us at a time when the faith of many of our nation’s Catholics has been shaken by widespread and deep-rooted scandal. May it prove to be as much of a support for the Church in this country as it has been in Britain.