Holy See’s spokesman regards ‘YouCat’ a miracle

(April 18, 2011) The youth catechism presented in Rome on Wednesday, is a "great miracle" that seeks to help Christ speak to the young people of today, says Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi. The Holy See’s spokesman offered this evaluation of the youth catechism called the "Youcat" when he spoke about the little yellow book during his weekly ‘Octava Dies’ episode on Vatican Television, CTV. Youcat will be distributed to participants at World Youth Day this August in Madrid. Fr. Lombardi said, “the great Catechism of the Catholic Church, compiled at the request of Pope John Paul II under the guidance of the present Pope, then Cardinal Ratzinger, already was a ‘miracle,’ because few people thought it possible to arrive at a common, unitary, systematic and complete formulation of our faith during this time of rapid development of mentalities and languages, of explosive variety and cultural fragmentation." But this one faith, Father Lombardi explained, “must be spoken in languages capable of reaching the mind and the heart of today’s youth….or else it will gradually become more and more irrelevant to life. He admitted "Youcat” was not born perfect, but it is a great miracle that we have in our hands and together we must improve it and make it grow, in pace with new generations.