Dear Editor, Like Dr Andrew Maxwell (Letters IC 20/07/2017), I too spent almost all my working life in South Africa and have a similar view to his on the situation of Catholicism here after those years.
I agree that the younger generation mostly seems absent from participation in Church matters in Ireland today and would broaden the influences from the GAA to such things as pop music, seen in massive open-air congregations of delirious audiences responding and even singing the words of the songs, plus more philosophic affects from media of a secularist or even anti-religious nature.
It seems that the articles both by and for youth in your esteemed journal, encouraging social development in faith-inspired activities, as well as the excellent example of the synod seen recently in Limerick diocese, point to ways of countering those other distractions.
Yours etc.,
Pat Morgan, Wexford.
