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

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

Preparing for Holy Week

If you lived in York many hundred years ago you might have gone to watch the Mystery Plays: a highlight of the year.  Perhaps you even took part in them. The actors were the ordinary people of the town, gathered in their trade bodies, the guilds. The plays, staged on...

St John Fisher’s Young Evangelist

Samuel Wilson, a Year 9 student at St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, has received the Evangelisation Trophy for his excellent contribution to the School Chaplaincy. The parents of Xavier Newman-Burke (2001-2017) donated this annual award in memory of their...

Knit and Natter in Dewsbury

Knit and Natter came about after a conversation with a student at St John Fisher Catholic School in Dewsbury regarding her grandmother ‘always forgetting…’Staff and students from years 7 to 11 dropped into the Chaplaincy either to learn to knit or to share their...