In early 2023, a 50.1% controlling stake was purchased by New York-based alternative asset firm GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (Luxembourg).

In 1920, Diamond edited the Herald from jail after writing an editorial leader article that supported Irish nationalism and allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland.

During the late 1930s, Vernor Miles, like Viscount Rothermere in the Daily Mail, published a number of articles that displayed some moral ambivalence towards the rise of fascism in Europe.

[4] Many bishops in England, Ireland and Scotland, including Dublin's Archbishop John McQuaid, disagreed with the Herald's view of Vatican II events.

[8] Albrow was also the editor responsible for bringing the paper's celebrated 1960s cartoonist John Ryan into the Herald which began 'what was to become an entertaining visual chronicle of the post Vatican II Catholic church'.

Ryan had attended Ampleforth and was able to speak to ordinary Catholics as he had been educated in the liturgical practice of the pre-Vatican II church in which his audience had also been raised.

[10] Albrow was followed by aristocratic journalist Gerard Noel, author of 20 books, who had met with Pope Pius XII at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo in 1947.

Sheehy did not step into the doctrinal and liturgical wars that were dividing the church in the 1980s as he set out a populist agenda for the paper to help its commercial interests.

Employing young journalists straight from university, he steered a middle course at a time when Catholicism was starting to divide into factions as Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, clashed with more progressive elements of the church.

Herschan first fell out with columnist Alice Thomas Ellis, an orthodox Catholic of traditional persuasion, after she wrote a piece condemning the late Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock.

Although Jones did not apply for the editor's position, chairman Otto Herschan sought her appointment as the board wanted to ensure that the newspaper's coverage was uncontroversial.

Stephen Bates of The Guardian says that in the later 1990s and early 2000s under editor Oddie, the Herald moved in a different direction to the right and published criticism of liberal bishops and Jesuits.

[13] His support for John Ward, the Archbishop of Cardiff accused of covering up the actions of two known priests implicated in sexual abuse allegations, led to his downfall.

After Oddie criticised Guardian journalist Stephen Bates, claiming his account of the affair was "an unscrupulous fabrication"; the Herald was successfully sued.

Under Coppen, the online version of the magazine began by only including articles from the weekly print edition of the Catholic Herald, but later he added web-only content such as the coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's April 2008 trip to the United States.

In December 2014, Coppen was tasked by the board, chaired by Peter Sheppard, with turning the Herald into a weekly magazine, with a revamped website covering breaking news.

The Herald board then decided to re-invent itself as a monthly magazine of global influence taking advantage of digital subscription opportunities and focus on investment and growth in America.

Shortly after Dan Hitchens took on the position as editor in 2020, the newspaper revealed that it would be publishing on a monthly basis, a change from its previous weekly format.

[18] In January 2023, the Daily Telegraph wrote: 'The Catholic Herald is riding high after it was shortlisted for Consumer Publication of the Year at the 2022 PPA Independent Publisher Awards.

[19] In March 2023, a 50.1% shareholding of the Catholic Herald was sold to New York based GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (Luxembourg), an alternative investment private equity group with offices in Paris, New York, and The Bahamas, with the chairmanship of the Herald passing to GEM founder Chris Brown whilst Cash remained editor-in-chief, Director and a shareholder.

[1] Brown is also co-chairman of French fashion magazine L'Officiel which GEM held a 65% stake and built up globally through an international licensing franchise model covering 29 countries.

Under Cash's award-winning editorship, Herald website traffic increased significantly to over half a million original users a month with over 50% being from America.