Few told why the Church is as it is

Dear Editor, I was amazed to read Gerard Gallagher in your ‘Notebook’ section (IC 13/10/2016) say that commentators have described Ireland’s young Catholics as “over-catechised and under-evangelised”. Any commentator who truly believes that could usefully spend half an hour in the company of Catholics in their teens, twenties, or even thirties and forties: one thing 30 minutes’ listening would establish is that any who have been over-catechised have forgotten everything they were taught. Many will admit they were never taught what the Church teaches, and few will say they were ever told why the Church does as it does.

Yours etc.,

Clare McMahon,

Tallaght, Dublin 24.