Diary of a Gen Z Student: I opted out of religion at 12 - I never bought the idea that I was a sinner

"I didn’t like telling a man that I didn’t know about my sins at confession, for him to ask if I was sorry, and tell me that I would be forgiven if I said a decade of the rosary."

Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan. Photo: Barry Cronin

I remember sitting in the back row in my local church when I was 12, on the edge of the pew. 

The rest of my class would be sitting up close to the altar, preparing for their Confirmation.