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

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

St James the Great: Patron of all Pilgrims of Hope!

Happy Feast Day of St James the Great, the Patron Saint of all Pilgrims! During this Holy Year of Jubilee we are all exhorted to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, however we decide to journey to sacred sites, either in person or in prayer. The age-old tradition of...

Hang Out at St Augustine’s!

St Augustine’s Parish in Harehills held a well-attended, faith-based ‘Sunday Youth Hangout’ event to ask the young people of the parish what they would like from the Church. More than 50 young people, aged between 11 and 21 years old, had a fun...

A Bradford Bicentenary

 ST MARY’S, STOTT HILL – THE MOTHER CHURCH OF BRADFORD, 1825-2025  July 2025 marks the bicentenary of the opening of St Mary’s Church, Stott Hill, the first Catholic place of worship to be built in Bradford after the Reformation. Using material in the Leeds...

Aimee’s Audience with Pope Leo!

Aimee Grieve, a teacher at Holy Rosary and St Anne’s Catholic Primary School in Chapeltown, has just returned from a pilgrimage to Rome where she was fortunate enough to have an audience with Pope Leo and was chosen to present the Holy Father with a gift from...

Mgr Bryan Sharp’s Platinum Jubilee

Seventy years to the day, on Thursday 17 July Mgr Bryan Sharp celebrated his Platinum Jubilee of Ordination. It was on this date in 1955, at the age of twenty-five, that Mgr Sharp was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Heenan at St Peter’s Church, Leeds Road,...