Dr Emma Gardner holding the packet of Gingko Tree seeds from Hiroshima.On Thursday 6th of June 15 Gingko tree seeds were delivered to Dr Emma Gardner, Head of Environment for Salford Diocese. However, these are not just any old seeds. They originate from a tree that was in the blast zone […]
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The General Election – a view from the SPARK Social Justice Community
The non-optional presence of Good Works in the life of a Christian is paradoxically often ignored and focused on in equal measure. Jesus’ core teachings revolve around care for your neighbour, and to ignore this is to ignore Jesus.The Church’s long history of social teaching, formed into our Catholic Social Teaching, is particularly overlooked when […]
08 Apr – Preparing for the General Election
CAFOD and the SVP have joined forces to help prepare the UK Catholic community for the upcoming General Election. Their introduction to this campaign is as follows:The common good is reached when we work together to improve the lives of people both in our local community, and in the wider world. The SVP’s and CAFOD’s campaign […]
25 Mar – Living Laudato Si in the Leeds Diocese
As an encouragement to parishes across the Diocese of Leeds we have produced a compilation of our newsletter articles about Climate Change since the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato Si’. It turns out there are quite a lot! It includes a Foreword by Bishop Marcus and runs to 52 pages. We hope that as […]
18 Mar – Resilience in Working for Justice & Peace
On 14 March SPARK Social Justice and the J&P Commission, in partnership with Leeds Trinity University, had organised a presentation of the 2024 Romero Lecture. The Archbishop Romero Trust organises this event every year, taking a guest lecturer on a short UK-wide tour. This year the speaker was Dr Raymond Perrier, Director of the Denis Hurley […]
18 Feb – Fragility of Freedom, Holocaust Memorial Day
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter EditorEarlier this month, I was invited to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at the University of Bradford, organised by the Peace Studies department. This was the sixth consecutive year that the department had gathered to remember the victims of the Holocaust, and of all genocides since then.The theme for Holocaust […]
12 Feb – Daily Compassion for Leeds through Lent
By Emma Temple, Communications and Marketing Manager, LCI“Therefore as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (Colossians 3:12)On Tuesday 6th February, LCI and Leeds Christian Community Trust launched the 2024 edition of the Leeds Lent Prayer Diary.The launch event at Roscoe Methodist Church brought together the […]