This update on one parish’s work towards the Live Simply Award has been provided by Michael Emly What will help the “average parishioner” engage with the Church’s social teaching? What […]
Climate Change
31 Oct – Update on Carbon reduction in the Leeds Diocese
In July we reported how the Commission had engaged with the University of Leeds for an MSc student on the Sustainability and Consulting course (Mohamed Juma) to evaluate whether the […]
19 Jul – Can we reduce the Carbon Footprint of the Leeds Diocese?
Some months ago we reported how our Diocese has moved to a ‘green energy’ supplier, along with a number of other dioceses. In the Commission we wondered if there were […]
24 Jun 17 -Live Simply Workshop
Fifty five people from across our Diocese and beyond came along to the Workshop that we organised about Live Simply – with the financial support of CAFOD. The event ended […]
02 Nov 16 The Live Simply Award – a personal view
Do you remember the days of “The Parish Mission”? If you are under 50 then probably not, as they seem to have largely gone out of fashion. They were often […]
09 OCT 16 – Garforth Parish achieves ‘greenest in Leeds’ award.
St Benedict’s in Garforth recently celebrated gaining the Live Simply award and much of the following is courtesy of Katie Binns of the Leeds CAFOD office. The prestigious award, achieved […]
‘Laudato Si’ and the Leeds Diocese conference & AGM 07 Nov 15
After John Battle (Chair) had taken us swiftly through what the Commission had been up in the last 12 months we moved into a half-day of hearing about, discussing and […]