But why does offering a home to disaffected ministers bring the universal church into disrepute? Maybe it does if this gesture is seen in the context of power play politics, which it never struck me as. But then I am not in the thick of it, hearing the buzz and gossip in hallowed halls, so maybe I would not pick up on that.

Plus, despite my cultivated cynism there is still a little lad inside me who looks up to authority and says, “But they wouldn’t do that, would they?”