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

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

To Lima with Love: Peru Mission Appeal 2019

On the First Sunday of Advent a collection is taken throughout the Diocese of Leeds for the people of Peru. Our grants allow young, practising Catholics to complete their University degrees. As trained catechists and youth leaders they go on to enrich their parishes...

Samuel’s Community Spirit

A Dewsbury teenager has won a prestigious national award for service to his community. Thirteen-year-old Samuel Wilson attends St John Fisher Catholic Academy in Dewsbury. He was one of more than 300 teenagers across the country entered for the Celebrating Young...

Trinity Cup Debating Competition

Congratulations to Madison Farrar, Ben Fisher and Sophie O’Leary from St John Fisher School in Dewsbury, who represented the school with aplomb in the Trinity Cup – taking home two special prizes between them. The Trinity Cup is an ambitious youth debating...

Holy Week 2019

Masses, devotions and Civic events at Leeds Cathedral throughout Holy Week, plus St John Fisher Catholic Academy’s annual Good Friday re-enactment on the streets of Dewsbury of the Crucifixion of Our Lord are being photographed by Patrick Sice and will be...

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...