By Matthew Maslen It will be Ash Wednesday in a fortnight. This year, CAFOD’s Lenten campaign is the Walk Against Hunger; inviting people to walk 200km during Lent to raise awareness and funds for CAFOD’s nutrition projects. The campaign is particularly focusing on Sierra Leone. Around the world there are 200 million children living at […]
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28 Jan – War & Climate Change
This was the title of our January webinar led by Tim Devereux, Chair of the Movement for the Abolition of War. Tim spoke for about half an hour and the rest of the time was used in questions. After a brief scene setting about Climate Change itself, Tim went on to explore the greenhouse gas […]
21 Jan – Commission Response to Diocesan Synodal Process
The Commission has responded to the Diocesan Listening Process. However, the question format used for parish meetings and individual online responses did not align with the key points that we wanted to make. We trust that the synodal listening team can incorporate these points into the overall results of the process.These were the main points […]
19 Jan – Racial Justice in the Leeds Diocese
By John Duffy, Commission member When the Justice and Peace Commission came to look at issues of racial justice, we realised that we need to do more than support Racial Justice Sunday. We had learned from the Catholic association for Racial Justice (CARJ – www.carj.org.uk) that some Black Catholics often encountered the same problems within […]
18 Jan – Nationality & Borders Bill
By Matty Maslenhis month, the Nationality and Borders Bill is going through the House of Lords, after passing through the House of Commons at the end 2021.As the CSAN Statement from December summarises, the Bill would: “overhaul our asylum system to make it much more difficult to seek asylum in the UK.”. It is a […]
17 Jan – The Time for Renewal
Pope Francis wrote of the impact of the Covid pandemic in his encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’:”Anyone who thinks that the only lesson to be learned was the need to improve what we were already doing or to refine existing systems and regulations is denying reality”.The Covid pandemic has ravaged families and communities and hollowed out many […]
Young People, Church, Spirituality & becoming Leaders
Dr Mealey is currently Associate Dean (Teaching Enhancement) at Global Banking School This is an extended paper about this topic. Here is a short extract: In my view, to bring young people back into the Church more fully, we need to remember the riches of the spiritual life. Most young people that I […]