By Aoibheann Kelly, Project Director for SPARK Social Justice – A Leeds J&P Project Stories can conquer fear and make the heart grow larger. Listening to and sharing stories has been part of my life and I have had the privilege of witnessing first-hand how people’s perceptions about the society they live in and attitudes […]
Catholic Social Thought
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09 Jul – Poems of Hope
By Lucy Irven, Coordinator Leeds Diocesan Refugee Support Group Last year, Refugee Week celebrated its 20th Anniversary and to raise awareness amongst the younger members of our community, the Refugee Support Group asked the schools in the Diocese to write Poems of Hope on the theme of refugees as part of a competition. The children […]
22 May – SPARK Social Justice, our new project
For a while now we have been only too aware of the lack of younger people (with some exceptions) coming along to events organised by the Justice & Peace Commission.With financial support from the Porticus Trust we have just started up a project that will run to the end of 2020. It is specifically designed […]
14 Apr – Family Poverty workshops, could your parish participate?
Our workshops about Family Poverty (Family Poverty: A Diocese Acts) are now ready to be rolled out to more parishes. In his Foreword to the Facilitator Workshop pack, Bishop Marcus comments: “I invite parishes to take up the challenge of examining the background to family poverty by participating in these workshops in their parish community. […]
31 Mar – Reflecting on our ‘Common Home: the Earth
About 30 people gathered from ten parishes at SS John Fisher & Thomas More parish (Burley in Wharfedale) on Saturday 30 March to reflect more deeply about ‘Caring for our ‘common home’: the Earth’. This day of Reflection organised by the Commission was also partly a trial run of some of the resources that CAFOD […]
17 Jan – J&P PAID WORK OPPORTUNITY
The Commission has received funding to work with people between 16 and 30 on issues of Social Justice. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual or an organisation to create, set up and implement the activities of this new project. What do we need doing? • Develop a set of 1-2 hour workshops […]
12 Dec – Faith Day at St Mary’s Menston
Saint Mary’s Menston can be justly proud of its active involvement in working for justice and peace for many years. Since its formation three years ago, the new ‘Global Warriors’ group has been extending this commitment and growing its influence throughout the school. The aim of the group is to raise awareness about issues of […]