When a group of Christians stood outside Canterbury Cathedral on a cool evening in February this year singing hymns and praying in reparation for the so-called silent discos taking place inside that sacred space, they were told they were overreacting.
"It’s only a silent disco," they said. "It will help bring people in," some well-meaning voices piped up. "The Cathedral needs the money," so the official response went.
Catholics were told it was none of their business anyway.
Since then, and despite widespread criticism and a petition reaching over 3,000 signatures, there was yet a further disco held at Canterbury Cathedral, on none other than the Feast of the Assumption, along with tens of other similar events across the country.
