Fr Tony Burke, who has died at the age of eighty-seven, was a priest of the Diocese of Hallam since its formation in 1980. Previously he had been a priest of the Leeds Diocese, ordained at St Stephen’s, Skipton in July 1958. Walter Anthony Burke was born on 21...
Our Bishop Emeritus, Archbishop Arthur Roche celebrates a birthday with Biblical connotations this week. On Friday 6 March he will mark his seventieth birthday, on the same day that he returns to Rome from the Vatican Curia’s week-long Lenten retreat at the Casa...
On Saturday 27 February the Church of the Holy Rosary, Chapeltown Road, Leeds was the venue for a Mass to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Eritrean Chaplaincy in the Diocese of Leeds. It is here that Eritrean Catholics gather on the first and third Sundays of...
The First Sunday of Lent is the occasion for the Cathedral to host the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion. This year the event took place on the afternoon of Sunday, 1 March and was led by Bishop Marcus. A large congregation gathered in the...
Bishop Marcus has announced that the current Diocesan Vocations Director, Fr Michael Doody (Parish Priest of St Augustine’s, Leeds) will take up appointment as the Pastoral Director on the formation staff of the English College, Rome in September of this year....
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