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

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

Honouring Spen Valley’s Valiant Hearts

This year marks the centenary of the unveiling of both the Heckmondwike and also Cleckheaton’s Spenborough War Memorials. Features of our local landscape that with the dulling of their initial poignancy for local families are all too often taken for granted and...

‘Christmas as Usual’ … in our churches!

Members of the Chordiality Choir, based at First Martyrs Church in Heaton, Bradford have found a way for two of our Catholic parishes to have ‘Christmas as Usual’! Every year, Chordiality gives a concert of carols, seasonal songs and readings at First...

Our Fathers of Faith: our history comes to life

In 2008 Fr Nicholas Hird, Parish Priest of Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike, published the first two volumes of his monumental biographical dictionary of the priests of the Diocese of Leeds. This work covered the years from 1878, when the Diocese was founded, up to 1914....