LEDAS (Leeds Destitute Asylum-seekers Support) is a new charity, recently granted charitable status. It has been set up by local people, including Catholic parishioners from Leeds. Sally Brown is one of the Trustees and describes how LEDAS aims to offer Dignity in...
This Sunday (3 May) at 7.10am, the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme will feature the work of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme. Diocese of Leeds Music wasted no time in moving their programme of 18 after-school choirs online and continuing their work in 53 of...
Could this be the first icon of Saint John Henry Newman? Two years ago, Bishop Marcus was so convinced that Newman would be canonised that in anticipation, he commissioned an icon of Saint John Henry Newman from the renowned iconographer Ian Knowles who founded the...
Leeds’s Parish of the Blessed John Henry Newman will be in for a change of name after 13 October, as Newman becomes England’s newest saint! Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), who died 129 years ago today (11 August) is widely considered to be one of the most significant...
On 28 July the Diocese of Leeds welcomed around 180 young people from the Eritrean Catholic community to the Holy Rosary Church at Chapeltown in Leeds. Coming from as far afield as London, Cardiff, and Newcastle, many of the young adults travelled up the evening...
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