Commission member Sean Morris is featured in the New Year’s Day podcast called ‘All Kinds of Catholics’.
The All Kinds of Catholic podcast is created and hosted by Theresa Alessandro. In each episode, Theresa is in conversation with a different Catholic guest exploring how they live their faith in the world today. Guests will often be people who are not in the public eye. Taken together, their stories illustrate the image Pope Francis uses in Evangelii Gaudium, of a ‘chaotic…genuine experience of fraternity, a caravan of solidarity, a sacred pilgrimage’ experienced by Catholic people ‘stepping into this floodtide’ of life.
Sean is a member of the vibrant Good Shepherd church community in Mytholmroyd.
He works for Manchester City Council but also worked for Leeds City Council for a number of years.
Through his local government work he became involved with the Mayors for Peace programme which provided all sorts of opportunities to meet with people from across the world who are working for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Sean is the driving force behind the Commission’s project ‘Trees of Hope’.
Through his contacts we have obtained 15 seeds and 15 small saplings from a gingko tree that survived being in the blast zone of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The tree survived and started to flourish again. Since then, the saplings grown from this tree’s seeds (and a few other trees and bushes in the blast zone) have been planted across the world. The ones that the Commission has obtained are currently being nurtured at the Laudato Si centre at Wardley Hall in the Salford Diocese. The first saplings should be available sometime during 2026.
As the name suggests, Theresa Alessandro does, indeed, interview ‘all sorts of Catholic’ exploring the faith journeys of different people. Theresa was formerly Director Pax Christi in England & Wales and subsequent to that worked at PACT (the Catholic prisons charity).
Theresa says, ‘I get so much out of talking with guests. The episode with Sean was especially powerful because he was so honest about the challenges as well as the high points he has experienced in trying to live his faith. His openness to the experiences of other people, to continuing to learn, and to putting his faith into action to make a better world, will resonate with many listeners I know. I felt I was spending time with a Catholic person who is really trying to live life in its fullness.’
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