By John Duffy, Commission Member Last weekend I attended the 40th anniversary conference of the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ). After welcome and introductions by Yogi Sutton (Chair of CARJ) and Bishop John Arnold, Alison Lowe gave a keynote speech, describing her own journey and background, and describing aspects of her work as West Yorkshire’s […]
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31 Aug – Commission to reimburse travel costs to Racial Justice Conference
We recently reported about the upcoming 40th anniversary conference of CARJ – The Catholic Association for Racial Justice. ( read about it here ). This will be held in Oldham on 21 September.The Commission has agreed to reimburse public transport costs for anyone from the Leeds Diocese who wishes to go to this conference. It’s […]
28 Aug – Racial Justice: An Urgent Church Priority
in March 2023 on the UN International Day for the Elimination of racism Pope Francis denounced racism , likening it to a ” virus that quickly mutates and instead of disappearing goes into hiding and lurks in waiting”.Disturbingly, recent so called ” protests”, particularly in northern towns, left without real ” levelling up”, and in […]
20 Apr – Leeds Lives: Bishop Tony Parry
By Emma Temple, LCIOn Thursday 14th March, Christians around Leeds gathered to hear Bishop Tony Parry tell his story of faith at New Testament Church of God.As Dr Helen Reid introduced him, it was clear from the extensive list of communities he’d served and titles he’d held that this was a life whose impact created […]
05 Nov – The Windrush Generation
By John Duffy, Commission MemberI was lucky enough to go to a recent National Justice & Peace networking day in Birmingham, to listen to the Reverend Eve Pitts, – the first Black woman to be ordained priest in the Church of England – talk about being brought up by the Windrush Generation. […]
20 Mar – Racism from a church perspective: online course
We are offering sponsorship for a limited number of people to take part in the next Black Light course. This is an online course over 8 weeks starting in May.The course is described as followsOver the past 50 years, the church scene in many parts of Britain has experienced dramatic changes. One of the most […]
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 […]