{"id":11564,"date":"2025-01-11T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedsjp.org.uk\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:47:16","slug":"11-jan-blessed-are-the-peacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/2025\/01\/11\/11-jan-blessed-are-the-peacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Jan – Blessed are the Peacemakers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nCommission member Sean Morris is featured in the New Year\u2019s Day podcast called \u2018All Kinds of Catholics\u2019.\u00a0

\u00a0The\u00a0All Kinds of Catholic<\/b>\u00a0podcast is created and hosted by Theresa Alessandro. In each episode, Theresa is in conversation with a different Catholic guest exploring how they live their faith in the world today. Guests will often be people who are not in the public eye. Taken together, their stories illustrate the image Pope Francis uses in Evangelii Gaudium, of a \u2018chaotic\u2026genuine experience of fraternity, a caravan of solidarity, a sacred pilgrimage\u2019 experienced by Catholic people \u2018stepping into this floodtide\u2019 of life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0

\nSean is a member of the vibrant Good Shepherd church community in Mytholmroyd.

He works for Manchester City Council but also worked for Leeds City Council for a number of years.

Through his local government work he became involved with the Mayors for Peace programme which provided all sorts of opportunities to meet with people from across the world who are working for peace and nuclear disarmament.\u00a0

Sean is the driving force behind the Commission\u2019s project \u2018Trees of Hope<\/a>\u2019.

\n\"Sean\nThrough his contacts we have obtained 15 seeds and 15 small saplings from a gingko tree that survived being in the blast zone of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The tree survived and started to flourish again. Since then, the saplings grown from this tree\u2019s seeds (and a few other trees and bushes in the blast zone) have been planted across the world. The ones that the Commission has obtained are currently being nurtured at the Laudato Si centre at Wardley Hall in the Salford Diocese. The first saplings should be available sometime during 2026.\u00a0

\nAs the name suggests, Theresa Alessandro does, indeed, interview \u2018all sorts of Catholic\u2019 exploring the faith journeys of different people. Theresa was formerly Director Pax Christi in England & Wales and subsequent to that worked at PACT (the Catholic prisons charity).\u00a0

Theresa says, ‘I get so much out of talking with guests. The episode with Sean was especially powerful because he was so honest about the challenges\u00a0as well as the high points he has experienced in trying to live his faith. His openness to the experiences of other people, to continuing to learn, and to putting his faith into action to make a better world, will resonate with many listeners I know. I felt I was spending time with a Catholic person who is really trying to live life in its fullness.’\u00a0

\n\"All\nListen to the podcast:

Available on Buzzsprout<\/a>

Available on Spotify<\/a>

Available on Apple<\/a>

Or your your Podcast platform of choice

Follow All Kinds of Catholic<\/em> on Social Media:

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Facebook<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[377,323,16,18,378],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-social-thought","category-peace","tag-allkindsofcatholic","tag-gingkotrees","tag-pax-christi","tag-peace","tag-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19855,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions\/19855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}