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<h1><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">‘Desecration’: </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Canterbury Cathedral </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">hosts alcohol-fueled ‘silent disco’ near</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">tomb of English martyr</span></h1>
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Critics, including Christian Dr. Cajetan Skowronski, have protested 
against the desecration, warning of <b><font size="2">plans to extend similar events to 
other cathedrals across Britain. </font></b><br></div><div>
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</div><div>  <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/desecration-canterbury-cathedral-hosts-alcohol-fueled-silent-disco-near-tomb-of-english-martyr/?utm_source=daily-catholic-2024-02-14&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/desecration-canterbury-cathedral-hosts-alcohol-fueled-silent-disco-near-tomb-of-english-martyr/?utm_source=daily-catholic-2024-02-14&utm_medium=email</a></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Canterbury Cathedral, the site of the first Catholic cathedral<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">on 
the British Isles</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">and destination for millions of Christian pilgrims</span></b>, 
<b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">has <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/07/christians-protest-rave-in-the-nave-at-canterbury-cathedral/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">hosted</a> a two-night “silent disco” serving alcohol to revelers in headphones.</span></b><div>
<p><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">The events, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/st-thomas-beckets-shrine-has-a-fine-and-sacred-story-they-are-to-literally-dance-on-his-grave-2/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">described</a>
 </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">in advance by </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">one Catholic writer</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">as “dancing on</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the grave” of the 
martyred Saint Thomas Becket,</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> took place </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">on the nights of February 8 and
 9, </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">and were promoted by the homosexual Dean of Canterbury, </span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">who manages 
the formerly Catholic cathedral</span>.<ins id="m_-7826078163061136803gmail-revive-0-1" style="text-decoration:none"></ins></p><div id="m_-7826078163061136803gmail-beacon_5540501ae7"><b><img src="https://ads.lifesitenews.com/www/delivery/lg.php?bannerid=0&campaignid=0&zoneid=1&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fanalysis%2Fdesecration-canterbury-cathedral-hosts-alcohol-fueled-silent-disco-near-tomb-of-english-martyr%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-catholic-2024-02-14%26utm_medium%3Demail&cb=5540501ae7" width="0" height="0" alt="" style="width:0px;height:0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">The current dean is the Very Reverend David Monteith</span></b>,<b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> <a href="https://anglican.ink/2022/10/11/partnered-gay-priest-appointed-dean-of-canterbury-cathedral/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">described</a> by an Anglican news outlet</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> as a “partnered gay priest” </span></b>with a reported <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/st-thomas-beckets-shrine-has-a-fine-and-sacred-story-they-are-to-literally-dance-on-his-grave-2/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">interest</a> in “getting the youth into church.”</div>
<p>His plans for Canterbury Cathedral were outlined in a <a href="https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/14-october/news/uk/dean-of-leicester-to-be-the-next-dean-of-canterbury" rel="noopener" target="_blank">statement</a> following his appointment by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2022:</p>
<p>“Dean Monteith, who is in a civil partnership with David Hamilton 
said he was ‘overjoyed and humbled’ by his appointment to Canterbury. 
‘Canterbury Cathedral has played a vital part in our Christian story in 
England… I already can see there is much to steward and much to imagine 
anew as our context reshapes.’</p>
<p>Canterbury Cathedral is described by the Church of England as 
the “Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, seat of the 
Archbishop of Canterbury & World Heritage Site.”</p>
<p>It is the place at which the Catholic faith was first established in 
England, built on a church founded by St. Augustine, who arrived in 597 
AD.</p>
<p>The “reshaping” of the “context” of Canterbury Cathedral comes after 
similar stunts to broaden the appeal of sacred buildings beyond their 
purpose, with the Church of England <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-49349348" rel="noopener" target="_blank">installing</a> a crazy golf course in Rochester Cathedral in 2019, and a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-49292493" rel="noopener" target="_blank">helter skelter</a> in Norwich Cathedral in the same year.</p>
<p>Now, the organizer of protests and a petition against <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the cathedral 
discos </span></b>warns that this <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">is just the beginning, as the <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Church of England 
</span>has plans to host discos in a further 12 <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">cathedrals.</span></span></b></p><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">....<b><br></b></span></p></div></div><div id="m_-7826078163061136803DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de"><tbody><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><br></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="#m_-7826078163061136803_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div></div>