If, like me, you spend a little too much time on Catholic Twitter – or should I say X – then you might in the past few weeks have scrolled past various photos with a theme that caused a bit of a double take. Beards, braids, flannel shirts and long floaty skirts was the aesthetic that suddenly seemed to dominate my timeline.

While you may be forgiven for thinking the photos came from some New Age festival, they actually came from a conference in upstate New York – predominantly attended by Catholics.