Part of the talk that John Battle gave at the Caritas Leeds Day of Reflection on 06 October 2018 Gaudate et Exsultate deliberately focusses on “now”, the present, and where we are in our homes, communities, country and world today. It is a reflection on ‘the mysteries of the Beatitudes” as Bishop Marcus comments. Notably, […]
Catholic Social Thought
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13-Feb Family Poverty: From Awareness to Action Workshop Report
This was the title of the workshop we held last Saturday in the Kala Sangam centre in the central Bradford. About 50 people turned up on a very wet morning to examine in some depth different aspects of family poverty and what is already being done and what more could be done. Liz Firth led […]
27 Oct – Inter-generational Conversations on Faith and Justice
At the end of September some people from the Leeds Diocese attended a workshop in Salford Cathedral centre about this. The idea behind it is that there is value in having a conversation across generations about Faith and Justice to see what different generations can learn from one another. We were presented with a method […]
06 SEP 16 – Rerum Novarum explored at St.Benedict’s Garforth
About 30 people gathered at St Benedicts in Garforth to hear Lyn Smith, a theologian who lives in New Zealand (but who hails from Yorkshire), talk about Catholic Social Teaching and particularly its origins in the document produced by Pope Leo XIII – Rerum Novarum. Rerum Novarum was published in 1891 and many of its […]
09 JUN 16 – Catholic Social Teaching and the EU Referendum
A public Lecture given by John Battle at Leeds Trinity University on June 9th. This is an extract from the full text of his lecture. You can download the full text by clicking on the button to the right. Or you can watch the video of the full lecture made by Leeds Trinity University In […]
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 […]