Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: CAFOD’s call to contact your MP

Pope Leo has called for ‘an immediate halt to the barbarity of war’. In solidarity with the Holy Father, the CAFOD Campaigns Team makes this heartfelt plea: ‘The pain and suffering in Gaza is reverberating around the world. Distressing news and...

Leeds Trinity University Hosts 2025 Romero Lecture

The 2025 Romero Lecture entitled Excavating Hope will take place at Leeds Trinity University’s City Centre Campus (1 Trevelyan Square, Leeds LS1 6AE) on 13 March, starting at 7.00pm. This lecture will be given by Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez – a human rights...

SPARK Social Justice gets a New Chair!

Tom Allan is now the new Chair of the Steering Group for SPARK Social Justice: the Diocese of Leeds’ Justice and Peace Commission’s initiative for younger people. Tom Allan was a sixth former at St Mary’s Catholic Academy in Menston when he first...

Seasons of Creation Celebrated in Garforth

In the first of our series of features on the FOUR Seasons of Creation, Joe Burns from the Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission writes about the Celebrating Creation Fair which took place last month at St Benedict’s in Garforth… The parish of St Benedict’s in...

Diocese of Leeds Volunteer becomes CAFOD Trustee!

Congratulations to Matty Maslen on joining CAFOD’s Board of Trustees! A parishioner at the Bradford Parish of St Blaise, Matty started out as a volunteer for Diocesan Communications in 2017, from where he was  introduced to Bronagh Daly at the Leeds CAFOD office...