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.

Synodality (an awkward sounding word) is set to become a defining concept for the Catholic church in the coming years. And it will be the guiding principle for CPW as it explores how it is to re-form itself in its next stage of life.

Ellen Teague is known to many of us. As well as an active participant on both All Age and 18+ events, Ellen had also chaired many a week sharing her passion for Justice and Peace and knowledge of Catholic Social Teaching.

In this month's blog she tells us more about her work and involvement with CPW.

Even when our freedoms are limited, we have the power to do good. In this month’s blog, CPW Chair Anne Dixon reflects of freedom (with the help of camper vans, Reith Lecturers Law Lord Jonathon Sumption and Mark Carney, and writer and theologian Teresa Forcades I Vila) to ask: What does our faith teach us about the meaning and purpose of Freedom? And what is our response?

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?

Of all the experiences we have missed during our period of extended lockdown, the slow, shared meals with family and friends to celebrate special occasions must be among the most poignant. This is when good food is prepared with love, and the cares of the normal day are set aside to create a hallowed time of sharing, of being together, of making memories. The words of Rowan Williams’ poem awaken a longing in us for those times and occasions to return.