RIP Sr Anne Hammersley CP

On Friday 26 July, we learned with great sadness of the death in St Gemma’s Hospice of Sr Anne Hammersley CP.  May she rest in peace. For many years Sr Anne was the Retreat Director of The Briery Retreat Centre in Ilkley. During the course of her religious life and...

Guided Tours of Leeds Cathedral

Guided Tours of Leeds Cathedral The Dedication of the Cathedral Church of St Anne took place 100 years ago, on 18th July 1924. As part of the celebrations for the Centenary guided tours (lasting about one hour) are taking place on Saturday 3rd August and Saturday 31st...

Bishop Marcus Launches Jubilee Year for Schools

Bishop Stock, Chair of the Catholic Education Service (CES), has written to diocesan schools commissions informing them that Friday 24 January 2025 will be the launch day for schools to mark the year of Jubilee in 2025. On that date, Catholic schools and colleges can...

Cathedral’s Centenary Celebrations

Thursday 18th July marked the 100th anniversary of the Consecration of Leeds Cathedral, the occasion when the Cathedral Church of St Anne was ‘exclusively and perpetually dedicated to God’. Several events have been held to celebrate the centenary, but the high point...

Fountains Abbey Mass on the Feast of St Benedict

Each year, Mass is celebrated at Fountains Abbey. Our Clergy Correspondent ‘View from the Valley’ was there and sends this report, with photographs taken by Patrick Sice: Fountains Abbey must surely rank as one of the most atmospheric ‘holy...