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

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

Open Day in the Gateway to the Dales!

Skipton is known as the ‘Gateway to the Dales’ and on Saturday 16 September 2023, the town’s Catholic Church of St Stephen will be opening its own gates, doors and archives to visitors from across Skipton, the Yorkshire Dales – and beyond! From...

York Catholic History Day 2023

York Catholic History Day will take place at the Bar Convent on Saturday 3 June 2023. This year’s speakers will discuss aspects of Catholic education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sr. Patricia Harriss, cj will talk about The Bar Convent and Nineteenth...

Work Progresses on Cathedral Memorial to Mgr Peter McGuire

Work is now well under way on creating a lasting memorial to the late Mgr Peter McGuire, former Vicar General of the Diocese of Leeds, and Dean of the Cathedral between 1981 and 2003. He died in January 2015, aged eighty-two, and is still fondly remembered across the...

A Bishop for Southwark Makes History for Leeds

The episcopal ordination of Bishop Philip Moger has created a situation that is unique in the history of the Diocese of Leeds. For the first time since the diocese was established in 1878 we have a Leeds priest who is a bishop, one who is an archbishop and one who is...

The Yorkshire Cardinals

To mark the appointment of our Bishop Emeritus to the Sacred College of Cardinals, Dr James Hagerty KSG has written a short series of articles about the lives of the three Yorkshiremen who have been honoured in this way – St John Fisher, Cardinal Arthur Hinsley...