The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

Missing Mass at Fountains

Tomorrow, on 20 August, clergy and parishioners from right across the Diocese of Leeds would usually have been celebrating the Feast of St Bernard with Mass in the Cellarium at Fountains Abbey.  This year, the physical distancing required for the COVID-19 regulations...

‘Listen with Father’! Diocesan Retreat still available Online

More than 1,500 people joined the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal for the 2020 Diocesan Retreat on the subject of ‘Healing in Christ’. The one-day online Retreat was broadcast on the Friars’ Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/StPioFriary/ and is still available...

VJ Day 75

The 75th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan) will be recognised on Saturday 15 August 2020 commemorating the end of the Second World War. The end of hostilities came a matter of days after the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the...

Seminarians instituted as Lector and Acolyte

Congratulations to two of our seminarians, Yemane Aradom and Marc Pitson, as Bishop Marcus has today conferred on them the Orders of Lector and Acolyte respectively! The live-streamed ceremony and Mass is available to view here on our YouTube channel Leeds Cathedral...

Canon Philip Fitzgerald RIP

It is with great sadness that the Diocese of Leeds announces the death of the Very Rev Canon Philip Fitzgerald who died on the morning of Sunday 9 August, aged seventy-five. Please pray for the repose of Canon Fitzgerald’s soul and remember his family and his...