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

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

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...

Back on the BBC: Cathedral crops up again on Songs of Praise!

Sharp-eyed viewers of BBC One’s Songs of Praise have noticed two recent programmes (still available via BBC iPlayer) containing hymns recorded at Leeds Cathedral back in 2022. For anyone who missed the transmissions, here are some ‘screen grabs’,...

WORLD YOUTH DAY 2023

A group of around thirty young people from across the Diocese, together with members of the Diocesan Youth Team, will be travelling to Lisbon, Portugal from 31 July to 7 August 2023 for World Youth Day, a week-long youth festival with Pope Francis. We pray the World...

Leeds in Lourdes 2023

From Our Own Correspondent During the second week of July almost 500 pilgrims from the Diocese of Leeds made the journey to southwest France to take part in the annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, a tradition that now dates back almost a...