Your Chapel needs YOU!

He’s not quite Lord Kitchener, and he’s got a pointy sword rather than a pointy finger – but the moustache and the message is the same …! The Chapel Of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough is in need of more trustees, gardeners, volunteers and...

A Memorable Milestone along St Wilfrid’s Way!

This year, the Annual Diocesan St Wilfrid’s Way Pilgrimage was walked for the 10th time! In the 2025 Holy Year of Jubilee across the Catholic Church, we were all exhorted to walk together as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ – and for the pilgrims who each year set out in hope from...

Batley Torchlight Procession 2025

In the Diocese of Leeds, one of the highlights of our year is our unique event, the Batley Torchlight Procession. Read an account of this year’s Procession by Adam Cheshire in the Dewsbury Reporter and Batley News here: … and with the Church of St Mary of...

Celebrating the Feast of St Bernard at Fountains Abbey

John Tweddle from St Joseph’s Parish in Bilton (Harrogate) is a member of the Fountains Abbey Ecumenical Chaplaincy and has sent the following report on the Annual Mass at the Abbey: a long-standing summer event in our Diocese, which alternates each year between...

Celebrating the Feast of St Bernard at Fountains Abbey

John Tweddle from St Joseph’s Parish in Bilton (Harrogate) is a member of the Fountains Abbey Ecumenical Chaplaincy and has sent the following report on the Annual Mass at the Abbey: a long-standing summer event in our Diocese, which alternates each year between...