The Commission hosted a presentation of the 2016 Romero Lecture, which the Archbishop Romero Trust organises (with support from CAFOD and Pax Christi) every year. This year the title of the lecture was “The Violence of Peacemaking: Oscar Romero and the search for peace” The lecture was given by Fr. Francisco de Roux SJ, Provincial […]
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05 MAR 16 – Las Casas Conference ‘A poor church, for the poor?’
The Justice and Peace Commission were proud to be associated with this national level conference that took place at Leeds Trinity University on Saturday March 5th 2016. A full account of what happened at the conference can be read in our March 2016 newsletter (though it did gain some publicity in the national Catholic press […]
Open Commission Meeting in Bradford 24 Feb 2016
The material for this post appeared in the March 2016 J&P Newsletter The second of our Open Meetings took place in Bradford at St.Cuthbert’s church hall, part of the parish of St.Cuthbert & First Martyrs on Wed 24 Feb. The idea of these meetings is to have an exchange: for members of the Commission to […]
Open Commission Meeting in Skipton 26 Nov 15
This write up also appears in the December 2015 Newsletter Commission members, at the moment, mainly come from Leeds. To ensure that we understand better what social justice campaigning and other activity is going on around the diocese we are planning on having meetings across the diocese over the course of the next 12 months. […]
‘Laudato Si’ and the Leeds Diocese conference & AGM 07 Nov 15
After John Battle (Chair) had taken us swiftly through what the Commission had been up in the last 12 months we moved into a half-day of hearing about, discussing and committing to action about Climate Change.Ellen Teague, catholic journalist and part of the Columban JPIC team, went through some of the key concepts in the […]
“God has broken Down the Dividing Walls” Conference about Palestine 26 Sep 15
This conference was organised jointly by the Commission and the Leeds Pax Christi group.We are grateful to the Christian Peace Education Fund which provided some financial support to the event. It was organised as part of the World Council of Churches\’ World Week for Peace in Israel and Palestine.It followed the format of our conference […]
Commission Meeting of 15 Sep 2015 – Key Points
The Commission agreed that it should start to make more details of its meetings available via this website. So here they are! – but rather than present the minutes per se we will attempt to convey the key points of each meeting so you can get a flavour of what was discussed. New website Our […]