Many ex-Catholics happier without Church

RÓNÁN MULLEN (Irish Examiner, September 28) accuses the Catholic Church of failing to reach out to the people who have left it in the last few years.

He uses the language of anguish, alienation and a sense of “missing something”.

It is possible that in some cases he is right, and that there are people who need the Church to be more inspiring to them, to reach out to them, but these are by no means the majority.