{"id":11963,"date":"2025-04-30T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedsjp.org.uk\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:46:46","slug":"27-apr-commission-contributes-to-development-of-diocesan-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/2025\/04\/30\/27-apr-commission-contributes-to-development-of-diocesan-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Apr – Commission contributes to development of Diocesan Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nby Commission Members<\/em>

The Diocese has been going through a strategy development exercise for the past year and as part of this, the Commission has been asked to produce a statement outlining our Mission, Vision, and Values.

It has been a good exercise to undertake as it has made us think about how to express what it is that we are all about. It certainly engendered a good discussion between Commission members and it has been through several iterations before we arrived at the wording below!

\n\"Diocese\nMission Statement:<\/strong>

Our mission is to bring to everyone in the Leeds Diocese<\/a> an understanding and experience of Catholic Social Teaching. We aim to empower everyone to work with others to effect change, to advocate for the marginalised and oppressed, to work towards a world where human dignity is respected and upheld, and to care for God\u2019s creation in a sustainable way. It is a fundamental part of our Catholic faith that we should do such work.

Vision Statement:<\/strong>

We envision Catholic communities across the Diocese of Leeds acting for the Common Good and the care of our \u2018Common Home\u2019. A place where every individual is valued, and where we work together to create a society that reflects the love and compassion of Christ. These communities will be inter-generational, with our SPARK Social Justice programme<\/a> opening up space for the practical contributions of the next generations of Catholic to reflect and act on the Gospel imperatives for Social Justice.

Values:<\/strong>

1. Dignity and respect:<\/strong> We believe in the God-given dignity of every person and work to ensure that all people are treated in accordance with this.

2 Relational: <\/strong>We seek out opportunities to work with others (both inside and outside the Church) seeking the same outcomes.

3. Participatory:<\/strong>\u00a0We try to read the \u2018signs of the times\u2019 in a synodal way: \u2018seeing\u2019 unjust situations through listening to others, \u2018judging\u2019 what the just Gospel response is, and then \u2018taking action\u2019 to promote that response within both parishes and the whole community.

4. Solidarity:<\/strong>\u00a0We stand alongside those experiencing poverty, racism or who are marginalised for other reasons locally. We actively support national and international organisations working to address the root causes of injustice.

5. Stewardship:<\/strong>\u00a0We are dedicated to caring for God’s creation, promoting sustainable practices, and protecting the environment for future generations.

6. We dare to dream:<\/strong>\u00a0of a better world, of actions by Catholics in the Leeds Diocese producing real and lasting change to the root causes of poverty, climate change, racism and approaches to conflict.

7. Transparent:<\/strong>\u00a0We work in an open way, with all Commission meetings and action groups open to anyone who wants to join them.

8. Prophetic:<\/strong> We non-violently speak truth to power.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[158,407,185,408,409],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-social-thought","tag-diocese-of-leeds","tag-mission","tag-sparksocialjustice","tag-values","tag-vision"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","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=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19880,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/19880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}