Saturday 27 September at Hinsley Hall from 10:30 until 14:30Our quarterly meetings are usually hybrid affairs, with some of us joining via Zoom and some people together in a meeting room at Hinsley Hall. However, once a year we get together for an extended meeting to reflect on what we have done in the past […]
RacialJustice
1 Sep – Why we have decided to talk about Interculturalism, Faith and Racial Justice in Leeds
by Dwayne Hutchinson – Faith and Racial Justice Lead at Leeds Church InstituteRecently, I have been learning more about interculturalism. A lot of my key learning comes from conversations with Paul Lancaster, MA in Global Leadership in Intercultural Context and Guest Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, who has spent many years in this area of […]
16 Aug – October Day Retreat: Sustaining Hope in Today’s World
Saturday October 11 202510:30am – 4pm So many terrible things are happening in the world today. How do we cope? Where do we look to find signs of Hope? Earlier in 2025 we welcomed Fr Luis Orlando to give the Romero Lecture. People attending were moved by his descriptions of his work with the families of the disappeared […]
10 June – Reclaiming Histories: Slavery, Race and the Churches
Report on the day by Kathy Shaw, SPARK ManagerReclaiming Histories: Slavery, Race and the ChurchesJointly funded by the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds, Leeds Church Institute and United Society Partners in the GospelAims:The event aimed to promote deeper learning and discussion about racism within churches, considering the impact of […]
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 […]
31 Mar – Excavating Hope
by Cath Mahoney, member of the church community at Holy Rosary Church, part of the Leeds Cathedral parishFr Luis Orlando is a Mexican Jesuit priest who gave the Romero lecture in Leeds, entitled ‘Excavating Hope’.He started by telling us about the day he went into the Jesuit Noviciate in Mexico and was confronted by a series […]
21 Mar – Oscar Romero Lecture
by Kathy Shaw, SPARK Social JusticeOscar Romero lecture – Excavating Hope on 13th March at Leeds Trinity city centre campusPresented in the Leeds Diocese by SPARK Social Justice working in partnership with Leeds Trinity UniversityFr Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez (speaker) supported by Julian Filochowski, Chair of the Archbishop Romero TrustFr Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez is a […]