On Monday 14 November, members of Catholics for Christian Climate Action were joined by a number of Bishops as they kept vigil outside on the first day of the Bishops of England and Wales Autumn Plenary Meeting at Hinsley Hall, Headingly, Leeds.

This report on the proceedings of the CPWWT was over shadowed by the crisis of management of the organisation.

As fairly hardened CPW members neither Greg nor I had really given this weekend much thought before we set off for the Gower Peninsula.

Since the murder of George Floyd, cases of institutional racism have often been the news. In only the latest example, papers are full of the crisis at Yorkshire Cricket Club because of way it has dealt with racism revealed by a former player Azeem Rafiq.

A personal response to the study day by Anna Gibson…

CPW’s latest Zoom study gathering was led by Teresa Saunders and enabled by the technological expertise of Mike Willcox and Tom Dawkes.

From the enclosed, built-up cities or the spreading flatlands with their immense skies, why would you travel over two hundred miles to gaze on moorland hilltops enveloped in cloud and to listen to falling rain and leaves scuttling from a chasing wind? Well, why wouldn’t you?

Barbara Wilson spent two weeks on Camino to COP, a 500-mile pilgrimage from London to Glasgow, arriving in time for the start of the COP26 Summit in November. Parting from the pilgrimage when they reached Birmingham, Barbara shared some of her memories and reflections on her experience.

In this report on the online adult spring weekend held on zoom in March 2021, Ted Monks writes about how the group answered the following questions: What have we learned about prophetic action, what might help us distinguish between true and false prophets, are we likely to project our views on times past, what role do we have as individuals, Church, CPW?

Paul Marley reflects on a challenging and instructive evening in which the vast scale of time and space allowed us to explore questions beyond our comfort zones.

CPW Member Bill Phillips thanks Professor Monica Grady for a wonderfully informative and stimulating evening at the CPW Autumn Lecture on 22nd October 2020.

In this article Mike Campbell shares his experience of virtual church: “I am certain God is present at these services, and I have found myself spiritually refreshed and renewed by them. There is a real feeling of community… This lockdown has shown the laity can survive without the Church, but I am not sure how long the laity could survive without the Eucharist.”

“CPW is my favourite part of the summer holidays, so when I was told that it was cancelled, I was really upset. Then I was told that it was going to be held over Zoom and, to be honest, I didn’t want to do it. I thought it wouldn’t work and I didn’t want to talk to people I miss and can’t hug but, after the first session, I was so happy that I had joined.”

“What a wonderful week! How so worthwhile it has been for all of us privileged to be part of it. Thank God for people of vision in 1945 who set in motion such a wonderful “CPW Way” for our continuing re-discovery of the beauty and wonder of Him who walks shoulder to shoulder alongside us. This week has been a truly “HUMAN” experience of authentic Incarnation embodied in a Zoomed week in which young and old have celebrated together.”

“CPW is the embodiment of joy, it is a community which has refused to give into the challenges of a pandemic. I felt myself being lifted up, reminded that God is with me and in that I should feel an overwhelming joy knowing this. I was reminded of the reason I joined CPW, the joy and enthusiasm I experienced through a CPW family in my parish. I found this joy infectious and wanted my family to experience it also.”