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

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

SPARK Social Justice gets a New Chair!

Tom Allan is now the new Chair of the Steering Group for SPARK Social Justice: the Diocese of Leeds’ Justice and Peace Commission’s initiative for younger people. Tom Allan was a sixth former at St Mary’s Catholic Academy in Menston when he first...

FOUR Leeds Parishes now ‘LivingSimply’!

LiveSimply Group representatives from four Leeds parishes met at Immaculate Heart Church Hall (in the parish of St John Mary Vianney) to review progress since their last meeting in January this year. As part of our occasional ‘Four Seasons of Creation’...

Seasons of Creation Celebrated in Garforth

In the first of our series of features on the FOUR Seasons of Creation, Joe Burns from the Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission writes about the Celebrating Creation Fair which took place last month at St Benedict’s in Garforth… The parish of St Benedict’s in...

Procession at St Benedict’s in Mary’s Month of May 

Following persistent wet weather, the sun providentially beamed down on St Benedict’s Garforth on Sunday 5 May, as parishioners joined with their Parish Priest, Fr Henry Longbottom and retired priest Fr Peter Rosser, for a procession of Our Lady’s statue. Taking...

Garforth’s Green Acres!

The allotment at St Benedict’s in Garforth featured in last year’s Annual Review as one of the ways in which our parishes are following the imperative to care for the earth, our common home and fulfil the exhortations made in the Holy Father’s encyclical,...