Againat a background of running costs of £30,000 a day, and an income down by £1 million a year since the pandemic, the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Revd David Monteith, has defended the decision to hold silent discos this month.
Dean Monteith also suggested that there was a “gentle evangelistic dimension” to such events….
A 1990s silent disco was held in the cathedral for two nights this month, eliciting criticism from some quarters after footage was shared online. An online petition (“Anglican Deans, stop turning our great cathedrals into nightclubs”) has collected more than 2600 signatures. It was organised by a Roman Catholic layman, Dr Cajetan Skowronski.
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I looked at the scale of the financial challenge facing cathedrals, as highlighted by @liturgicalben in a recent article.
‘Our commercial activities utterly subsidise our worship.’https://t.co/eo1NXJ0fj9
— Madeleine Davies (@MadsDavies) February 26, 2024