“YouCat” for young people presented in the Vatican
(April 13, 2011) When young people from around the world will gather for the 26th World Youth Day of the Catholic Church in the Spanish capital, Madrid, August 16-21 this year, they will be surprised to find “YouCat” or the new “Youth Catechism” in each of their pilgrim backpacks. Written in a language young people can easily understand, YouCat, which is in question and answer format, was officially presented at a press conference in the Vatican on Wednesday. At the presentation were Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Laity, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization and others including two young people who collaborated in its preparation.
In the foreword to YouCat, Pope Benedict XVI urges young people not to abandon their faith in God because of the "attacks of evil" within the church. The Pope says he wants YouCat to be a supplement of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and not its replacement. He wanted the Catechism translated "into the language of young people and make its words penetrate their world." The Holy Father urges everyone to study the catechism "with passion and perseverance" either alone, in study groups or in exchanges with others online. Some 700,000 copies of the YouCat are being offered in 6 official languages of the World Youth Day and were to be out in bookshops on Wednesday. "You must know what you believe; you must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the (operating) system of a computer; you must know it as a musician knows his piece," the Pope exhorts the young people.
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