Our religious instruction is failing our young

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said in The Irish Catholic, July 30, that the future of the Irish

Church rests on “strong and articulate” lay people making their voices heard. What does that mean? What platform has the laity to make themselves heard?

Did Jesus Christ not instruct the apostles to go out to the whole world and proclaim the good news? The laity were instructed to live the Faith — having learnt it from the teachers.