Leeds @ FLAME 2025

On Saturday 15 March 2025, nearly 200 young people, chaplains, teachers, clergy and religious from across the Diocese of Leeds joined Ryan, Jessica, Fr Marc, and over 10,000 people at the largest Catholic youth event in England & Wales: FLAME! Organised by members...

Our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham

On the last Saturday in September, and blessed with glorious sunny weather, some 300 people, both young and old, took part in the annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham. The journey from Yorkshire to North Norfolk requires an...

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’,...