When we first launched the Catholic Herald website in 1999, it looked a little different to today. It consisted of a photo of our front page on a garish orange background, with links to a handful of features.

The site was something of an afterthought following our "real work": the weekly broadsheet Catholic Herald newspaper.

Nowadays, CatholicHerald.co.uk is no longer a mere shop window for our print edition. Today the site is at the heart of our mission. To serve our readers best we provide coverage of Catholic news as it happens. Readers looking for reliable, incisive analysis of Church affairs no longer have to wait.