By Joe Burns, Commission member The Northern Dioceses Environment Group (NDEG) organise at least one in-person event every year. This year they are doing a mini-pilgrimage from Leeds City Station to Kirkstall Abbey in celebration of 10 years since the publication of Laudato Si. A similar mini-pilgrimage, organised by the Diocesan Communications Director, took place […]
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26 June – St Vincent’s Centre Leeds Welcomes Refugees
By John Battle, Commission Chair It’s again peak channel crossing time for small boats carrying desperate asylum seekers from the coast of France. This week violence broke out just offshore between rival groups of Kurdish, Afghani and African smugglers in attempts to take over leaving boats. Reports of “overwhelming numbers” dominate media coverage. Internationally, here nationally and […]
23 June – Laudato Si 10th Birthday Celebrations
by Angela Powell, CAFOD Community Participation Coordinator for the diocese of Leeds and the diocese of HallamOn 15th June there was a 10th birthday party of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, to remember how justice for the poor and justice for the planet are related. Laudato Si is named after the Canticle of St Francis of Assisi which begins ‘Praise to You (Laudato Si’), Lord, […]
30 May – Jubilee for Schools – Making the Jubilee Pledge
by Sharon Matthews, CAFOD Community Participation Coordinator (Education Focus)It doesn’t seem that long ago when, back in January, we celebrated the Jubilee Year Launch Day for schools and colleges. A flurry of activity saw pupils and teachers across the nations come together to mark the start of this landmark moment in the Catholic church.Pope Francis […]
CLIMATE CHANGE – 2000 – 2025
by David Jackson former Laudato Si Animator contact personBefore 2011 themes Pope Francis described in Laudato Si in 2015 as ‘Care for our Common Home’ played background music in many of our lives. Many ‘loved’ nature, the countryside, birds, flowers, gardened, grew veg. CAFOD/J&P were an accepted part of parish life. Slowly we heard of […]
24 May – From Rerum Novarum to Pope Leo XIV via Leeds
by John Battle May 2025 at Church HouseTwo recent distractions; hearing echo loudly in the Eucharistic prayer at Mass after the Consecration the phrase “together in the FULLNESS of charity” and seeing our new Holy Father Pope Leo XIV hold up a copy of his namesake predecessor’s foundational encyclical” Rerum Novarum”. (1891).I have been trying […]
SVP – In-work poverty report – May 2025
Despite historically high employment rates, in-work poverty has been rising steadily in the UK for nearly two decades. This reality challenges the assumption that work alone is a reliable route out of poverty. The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) has seen a significant increase in working individuals and families seeking support across England and […]