By Dr Ann Marie Mealey, Director of Catholic Mission, LTUBeing a Catholic University in today’s complex global society is no easy task. With many feeling that values are akin to subjective preference and not at all the result of carefully discerning the truth which involves the sources of morality, it can be tricky to convince […]
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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 […]
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 […]
10 Feb – 2024 Romero Lecture
The Archbishop Romero Trust engages someone every year to do a short speaking tour.This year the speaker is Raymond Perrier. The Commission is organising a presentation of Raymond’s talk in the Leeds Diocese. As with last year, we are partnering with Leeds Trinity University. The meeting will take place on Thursday 14 March at 7pm […]
03 Feb – Listening event addendum
At the recent Commission meeting in early February, we discussed how to take forward the listening event that we held just prior to Christmas. We received very good feedback from the event and at first thought we might do a follow up in March.However, we agreed that the next similar event should take place somewhere […]
25 Jan – LiveSimply Parishes across Leeds Meet up
By Trish Sandbach, Commission memberOn Jan 20th about 25 Parishioners from 4 Parishes (Our Lady of Kirkstall, St John Fisher & St Thomas More, St John Vianney, and St Benedict’s) gathered at St Benedict’s, Garforth. All the parishes either have the Live Simply Award, some for many years, or have started on the journey towards […]