tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81701894430435763942024-02-06T23:47:46.189-08:00YOUCAT - THE YOUTH CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, Youcat India,Youcat malayalam ,youcat blog, YOUCAT is short for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was launched on World Youth Day, 2011. Developed with the help of young Catholics and written for high-school age people and young adults, YOUCAT is an accessible, contemporary expression of the Catholic Faith. The appealing graphic format includes Questions-and-Answers, highly-readable commentary, summary definitions of key terms, Bible citations and inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from Saints and others in the margins.youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-20602985823705376572013-04-25T22:30:00.000-07:002013-04-25T22:30:22.020-07:00Rio, Pope's only international trip for 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<img align="left" alt="" hspace="5" src="http://media01.radiovaticana.va/imm/1_0_686273.JPG" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">(Vatican Radio) Brazil will be the only international destination for Pope Francis in 2013. This was stated Wednesday afternoon by Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, in a meeting at the headquarters of the Foreign Press Association in Rome. "I invite you to not expect others to trips abroad this year," Father Lombardi said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Pope Francis will travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 28</span><sup style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #343434; font-size: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> World Youth Day, to be held July 23 to 28, with the motto "Go and make disciples of all nations" (Mt 28, 19). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And the Director of the Holy See Press Office did not rule out the publication this year of the Pope’s first encyclical remembering that Benedict XVI had already prepared the material on the topic of faith. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Father Lombardi went on to say that the pope emeritus, who currently resides in Castel Gandolfo, is expected to move back to the Vatican, to the Monastery of Mater Ecclesiae, between late April and early May. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Pope Francis, however, will continue to reside in the Casa Santa Marta, where "he is very well settled”. Father Lombardi added: “At the moment, he does not seem to want to change his dwelling, even if a final decision has not been made." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In recent days, Dr. Alberto Gasbarri, who is in charge of all international papal journeys, traveled to Rio de Janeiro to finalize details of Pope Francis’ visit: "The program will follow the desires of the Pope," he said, recalling that the presence of the Holy Father is confirmed for the welcome ceremony, the Way of the Cross, the Vigil and closing Mass of World Youth Day, scheduled for Sunday, July 28 at the Campus Fidei, in Guaratiba</span></span></div>
youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-4780803042270991472013-04-10T09:40:00.001-07:002013-04-10T09:40:33.771-07:00Enjoying Youth from Taize<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-12010155970624161002013-03-28T23:04:00.002-07:002013-03-28T23:04:41.394-07:00Washing the feet: the way to Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“The latest figures show that YouCat has sold 1.7 million copies worldwide. It’s been a great success in nearly every country where it has been published,” said German publisher Bernard Meuser. “For example, it is No. 1 in Spain, No. 1 in America, and No. 1 in Germany, along with the Pope’s latest book.”</span></div>
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youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-65789317284395951292012-08-10T04:40:00.004-07:002012-08-10T04:40:41.589-07:00Why YOUCAT Should Be Recalled and Amended<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">All Catholics can rejoice over efforts to properly catechize Catholic youth, for they are the future of the Church and they deserve to be taught full, historical Catholic doctrine. Unfortunately, the recently published YOUCAT (Youth Catechism) for World Youth Day (August 16-21, 2011) contains several defects & ambiguities that depart from sound Catholic doctrine and that even contradict the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic Church</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">— the very document that YOUCAT supposedly summarizes. Consequently, YOUCAT will introduce much confusion and uncertainty, and could cause young Catholics to lose their zeal or even to abandon their faith completely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">This summary critique has been written to help pastors, parents and young people identify YOUCAT’s doctrinal errors and other defects, so that they can inform those who have obtained YOUCAT of its problems.</span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (1)</sup> This document also provides readers with a link to a petition that respectfully asks the Holy Father to recall YOUCAT so that the defects can be corrected and an addendum issued for copies already distributed or, as an alternative, so that YOUCAT can be replaced with the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church</span> or with a comparable document that does not contain defects. Large companies are often forced to recall products when dangerous defects are discovered; given that YOUCAT contains several dangerous defects that make it unacceptable for use by any Catholic, we similarly ask for its recall.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (2)</span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rather than countering this misguided question with the explanation that all of Scripture is God-breathed and immune from error, the YOUCAT authors provide the following answer:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bible is not meant to convey precise historical information or scientific findings to us. Moreover, the authors were children of their time. They shared the cultural ideas of the world around them and often were also <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">dominated by its errors</span>. Nevertheless, everything that man must know about God and the way of his salvation is found with infallible certainty in Sacred Scripture.</em>(emphasis and underline added)<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-4" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (4)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By stating that the Bible does not seek to convey “precise historical information” and that the Scriptural authors were often “dominated” by the “errors” of their time, YOUCAT creates the impression that the Sacred authors were simpletons whose writings contain errors, or that only those things needed for salvation are presented in Scripture without error. Yet such a position is a repudiation of the constant and never-interrupted teaching of the Church on Scriptural inerrancy and contradicts YOUCAT’s own teaching in another section where the Bible is called the “Word of the living God.”<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-5" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (5)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How should YOUCAT have responded to the question? Recognizing that “the Word of the living God” cannot possibly contain errors of any kind, the Catholic Church has always taught that the whole of Scripture was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that, since God is the principal Author of Scripture, the books of the Bible cannot contain any errors at all. This teaching on complete inerrancy, affirmed by Sacred Scripture, the Church Fathers and Doctors, plus the councils of Florence (1431-1443), Trent (1545-1563) and Vatican I (1869-1870), was also reiterated by Leo XIII in <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Providentissimus Deus (1893):</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By supernatural power, He so moved and impelled them to write—He so assisted them in writing—that the things which He ordered, and those only, they first rightly understood, then willed faithfully to write down, and finally expressed in apt words and with infallible truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This great Pope also stated in the same encyclical:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it is absolutely wrong and forbidden…to [state] that the sacred writer has erred. For the system of those who, in order to rid themselves of these difficulties, do not hesitate to concede that divine inspiration regards the things of faith and morals, and nothing beyond, because (as they wrongly think) in a question of the truth or falsehood of a passage we should consider not so much what God has said as the reason and purpose which He had in mind in saying it—this system cannot be tolerated…For all the books which the Church receives as sacred and canonical, are written wholly and entirely, with all their parts, at the dictation of the Holy Ghost…it is impossible that God Himself, the supreme Truth, can utter that which is not true. This is the ancient and unchanging faith of the Church.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-6" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (6)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Likewise, the Second Vatican Council document <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dei Verbum, (1965) states:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those things revealed by God which are contained and presented in the text of sacred scripture have been written under the inspiration of the holy Spirit. For holy mother church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (see Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:19-21; 3:15-16), they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the church itself.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-7" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (7)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite this teaching, it has been widely taught since the Second Vatican Council that <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dei Verbum</span> restricted the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture to matters directly pertaining to faith and morals. But that is far from being the case. The Council Fathers took pains to cite references to statements by the Council of Trent, Vatican Council I, and the encyclical letters of previous Popes, which emphatically upheld the absolute truth of the Scriptures on all subjects, including those not directly related to faith and morals, such as history and geography. In his encyclical <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humani Generis</span></span></span>, Pope Pius XII wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For some go so far as to pervert the sense of the [First] Vatican Council’s definition that God is the author of Holy Scriptures, and they put forward again the opinion, already often condemned, which asserts that immunity from error extends only to those parts of the Bible that treat of God or of moral and religious matters.<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-8" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (8)</a></sup></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So fundamental, historical, and vital is the Church teaching on inerrancy that in 1907, Pope St. Pius X issued the decree <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lamentabili Sane</span>, which was the “Syllabus Condemning the Errors of the Modernists.” In this document, he specifically condemned the Modernist position that “Divine inspiration does not extend to all of Sacred Scripture so that it renders its parts, each and every one, free from every error.”<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-9" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (9)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thus, any claim (or insinuation) that the original autographs of Holy Scripture contain error contradicts the constant teaching of the Church and is (or reflects) a condemned, heretical, Modernist position. <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This error alone should have stopped YOUCAT from being published in its current form and is more than sufficient reason to urgently recall and correct YOUCAT, or to replace it with a document containing sound doctrine. </span>If the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture is questioned, the authority of the Church Fathers and Sacred Tradition will also be questioned—for the Fathers, Doctors, Popes, and Councils believed in inerrancy—and the door for confusion on moral issues will be opened. In fact, such moral confusion is contained in YOUCAT, as summarized in the second objection.</span></span></div>
</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-42318501658985693642012-08-10T04:38:00.001-07:002012-08-10T04:38:19.522-07:00Objection #2:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Confused catechesis characterizes YOUCAT’s attempts to deal with the delicate topic of human sexuality. Question 65 of YOUCAT explains:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is no man on earth who is not descended from a union of a mother and father. Therefore it is a painful experience for many homosexually oriented people that they do not feel erotically attracted to the opposite sex and necessarily miss out on the physical fruitfulness of the union between man and woman according to human nature and the divine order of creation. Nevertheless, God often leads souls to himself along unusual paths: A lack, a loss, or a wound—if accepted and affirmed—can become a springboard for throwing oneself into the arms of God…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ambiguities in this paragraph will create enormous uncertainty as the text does not differentiate between same sex attraction and sinful homosexual acts of behavior. YOUCAT states that: “A lack, a loss, or a wound—if accepted and affirmed—can become a springboard for throwing oneself into the arms of God”—as if the young person with same sex attraction ought to “accept and affirm” his or her condition as “a springboard for throwing himself into the arms of God”! But no clear indication is given of exactly what it means to accept and affirm same sex attraction, and this terminology can obviously be used in an attempt to excuse immoral behavior. But God does not wish for anyone to sin and He does not wish for evil to be done so that good may come of it. The <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic Church</span> states of homosexuality:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved… Homosexual persons are called to chastity.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-10" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (10)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Given that extensive research by courageous Catholic doctors and psychologists has demonstrated that same sex attraction is not genetically determined and can be healed, YOUCAT ought to give hope to those experiencing this condition and it should provide links to appropriate Catholic sources of information on the causes and healing of same sex attraction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">YOUCAT’s treatments of Onanism and contraception are equally confusing. In Question 409, it tells young Catholics that “The Church does not demonize masturbation, but she warns against trivializing it.” Here again, vague terminology is apparent and many readers are bound to interpret the statement about not “demonizing” certain sexual behaviors as meaning that they are not a serious sin. The bitter irony of this statement is that by NOT calling masturbation a grave sin, YOUCAT DOES trivialize it! YOUCAT’s treatment of this topic contrasts starkly with the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church</span> which lists masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual acts as “grave sins against chastity.” <span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-11" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(11)</a></sup></span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic Church</span></span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> states that “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.”</span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-12" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></sup></span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-12" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (12)</a></span></sup></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On page 229, accompanying YOUCAT’s discussion of contraception, a side note appropriately quotes Pope John Paul II as characterizing contraception as immoral. In Question 421, the authors also recommend Natural Family Planning (NFP). But in the next sentence, rather than stating that the Church rejects all means of contraception, the text adds that “the Church rejects all <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">artificial </strong>means of contraception” (emphasis added). With this confusing phrase, the text could be read to mean that there are non-artificial (i.e., natural) means of contraception, and that NFP is a form of non-artificial contraception! Young people could mistakenly infer that contraception is acceptable, as long as it is “non-artificial” contraception — and their whole attitude towards NFP will be distorted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In reality, as Pope Paul VI explained in <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humanae vitae</span>, the Church condemns contraception for separating the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital union — not for being “artificial.” Natural Family Planning ought to be a way of insuring the healthy conception of children by parents who want to be generous in welcoming God’s gift of life. YOUCAT’s implicit presentation of NFP as “non-artificial contraception” recasts it as primarily a method of avoiding conception rather than as a way of insuring healthy conception in a spirit of generosity. The is all the more regrettable in a catechism for young people many of whom will imbibe the contraceptive attitude without even realizing it. This treatment differs markedly from the<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Catechism of the Catholic Church</span> which states that “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil.”<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-13" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (13)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In its teaching on holy marriage, YOUCAT does acknowledge the complementary roles of man and woman, but it says nothing about the special role of the man as spiritual leader of his family or of the special role of woman as the heart and nurturer of the family. Yet all of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church — and more than nineteen hundred years of magisterial teaching — have emphasized the spiritual headship of the husband and father in the Christian family. At a time when male moral leadership in the Church and in society is desperately needed, the failure of YOUCAT’s authors to even mention the traditional teaching of the Church on the spiritual leadership of husbands and fathers is a lost opportunity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although not directly related to human sexuality, YOUCAT’s teaching on organ transplantation also dangerously oversimplifies a matter of life and death. Question 391 supports organ transplantation after “a certain determination of death." This sounds reasonable, but the sad reality is that many organ transplants take place only after “a certain determination” of “<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">brain</em> death</strong>” — which is not the same as true death. Indeed, there are certain organs that can only be “harvested” while the patient is still alive. Many patients declared “brain dead” still have a heartbeat, pulse, and exchange of gas through their lungs! Why are young people not given this vital information?<sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-14" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (14)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-12187269730832262422012-08-10T04:37:00.001-07:002012-08-10T04:37:20.999-07:00Objection #3:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> YOUCAT alleges that<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genesis does not give a true account of creation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">The underlying reason for YOUCAT’s rejection of Scriptural inerrancy comes to the forefront in the book’s discussion of evolution theory and the historicity of the creation account in Genesis. Thus, although the fathers of the Council of Trent referred to this foundational text as “the sacred history of Genesis”</span><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-15" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (15)</a></sup> and Pope Pius XII confirmed in the 1950 encyclical <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humani Generis that the first eleven chapters of Genesis ”are truly a kind of history” one sees the authors of YOUCAT taking the destructive path that the Modernists first forged more than a century ago.</span><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-16" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (16)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Question 42, YOUCAT asks: “Can someone accept the theory of evolution and still believe in the Creator?” It answers:</span></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes. Although it is a different kind of knowledge, faith is open to the findings and hypotheses of the sciences…A Christian can accept the theory of evolution as a helpful explanatory model, provided he does not fall into the heresy of evolutionism, which views man as the random product of biological processes.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The answer states that it is acceptable to believe in evolution theory without stating any restrictions whatsoever, even with regard to human evolution. This is a serious error refuted by more than 19 centuries of consistent Church teaching. The response displays a complete ignorance of the flaws with evolution theory, including claims of human evolution, as well as a complete disregard for historical Church teachings on the doctrine of creation.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-17" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (17)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most young people reading YOUCAT will immediately understand "the theory of evolution" to mean biological evolution through mutation and natural selection. A fundamental and essential part of that hypothesis is that the first human beings were conceived in the womb of a sub-human creature. Thus, according to YOUCAT, Catholics can "accept" that Adam was conceived in the womb of a non-human entity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In reality, however, the Catholic Church rejected this view long before Charles Darwin, as all Church Fathers and Doctors, including St. Thomas Aquinas, unanimously taught that Adam was created immediately (directly and all at once) by God, from the dust of the earth, and Eve was supernaturally created by God from Adam’s side. This teaching is found throughout the writings of the Fathers and in 561, Pope Pelagius I affirmed it in a profession of faith:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For I confess that…Adam himself and his wife, who were not born of other parents, but were created, the one from the earth, the other…from the rib of man...<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-18" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (18)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1215, the Lateran Council IV <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">infallibly</em> decreed (and this was repeated in Vatican I almost word for word) that God:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">at once from the beginning of time created each creature from nothing, spiritual, and corporal, namely, angelic and mundane, and finally the human…<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-19" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (19)</a></sup></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even more explicitly, Pope Leo XIII wrote in his encyclical on holy marriage (1880):</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though revilers of the Christian faith refuse to acknowledge the never-interrupted doctrine of the Church on this subject, and have long striven to destroy the testimony of all nations and of all times, they have nevertheless failed not only to quench the powerful light of truth, but even to lessen it. <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We record what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any, that God, on the sixth day of creation, having made man from the slime of the earth, and having breathed into his face the breath of life, gave him a companion, whom He miraculously took from the side of Adam when he was locked in sleep. <sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-20" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(20)</a></span></sup></span><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-20" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></sup><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> [emphasis added]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Given that this and other encyclicals are part of the ordinary teaching Magisterium and demand religious assent according to the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic Church</span>, one wonders on what authority the writers of YOUCAT call "evolutionism" a "heresy" as distinguished from the "theory of evolution" that Catholics may “accept”? The only magisterial statement cited in YOUCAT on “evolutionism” as defined in the text is a sentence in the margin of page 38, taken from a homily by Pope Benedict XVI:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-21" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (21)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If, as seems to be the case, the writers of YOUCAT received their warrant to condemn evolutionism as “a heresy” from the low-level authority of a papal homily, how much more ought they to have condemned the broader "theory of evolution," based on the much more authoritative conciliar and magisterial decrees that are completely incompatible with the origin of all biological species through mutation and natural selection!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moreover, the idea that one can accept evolution as a helpful model of earth history and at the same time affirm the historical information recorded in the early chapters of Genesis is problematic and establishes a false tension between evolutionary speculation and the history in the Bible. This very approach was condemned by Pope St. Pius X in his encyclical <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pascendi Dominici Gregis</span> when he observed that the Modernists argued for a separation of faith from natural science when, in fact:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there can never be any dissension between faith and science, for if each keeps on its own ground they can never meet and therefore never can be in contradiction.</em><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-22" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (22)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The YOUCAT explanation also fails to make the essential distinction — which all of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church made without exception — between the order of creation in which God established the universe by His divine power and the order of providence which began when God had finished creating all of the different kinds of creatures and they began to interact within the framework of the natural laws that God had established. St. Thomas Aquinas, the great synthesizer of the patristic legacy, summed up the creation/providence distinction in the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summa Theologica</span> by stating that: “In the works of nature, creation does not enter, but is presupposed to the work of nature.”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-23" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (23)</a></sup> In other words, natural processes and operations are not themselves instances of God’s creative activity; rather, they show his Providence at work in maintaining his prior work of creation, which is presupposed by the way these processes and operations now take place.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">YOUCAT’s denial of this fundamental distinction between creation and providence echoes the thought of Teilhard de Chardin who wrote that Creation and development are “constantly fused, combined, together,”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-24" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (24)</a></sup> even denying any distinction between the pre-Fall and post-Fall world.<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-25" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (25)</a></sup> In 1962, the then-head of the Holy Office, Cardinal Ottaviani, issued a monitum against the works of Teilhard de Chardin, warning bishops and superiors that Teilhard’s writings were filled with “serious errors which offend Catholic doctrine” and ordering them to “protect, especially the minds of the young, against the dangers of the works of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and his followers.”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-26" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (26)</a></sup> Now, fifty years later, Teilhard’s errors are to be presented to millions of Catholic youth as the official teaching of the Catholic Church!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-90150177650843214502012-08-10T04:36:00.001-07:002012-08-10T04:36:22.546-07:00Objection #4:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YOUCAT Places greater weight on modern scientific speculation than on the Church Fathers’ unanimous interpretations of the first chapters of Genesis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The Modernist bent continues in YOUCAT when it accepts Big Bang speculation as indubitable dogma, yet the authors scoff at “creationists” who:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">naively take biblical data literally (for example, to calculate the earth’s age, they cite the six days of work in Genesis 1)</em><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-27" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (27)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In so doing, the authors of YOUCAT neglect to mention that all of the Fathers of the Church quoted in YOUCAT’s margins taught that God created the heavens and the earth and all they contain by divine fiat and that St. Augustine, the only Father who interpreted the days of Genesis 1 metaphorically, believed in an instantaneous creation of all of the different kinds of creatures — not in any kind of evolutionary development over long ages of time. Moreover, YOUCAT’s editors misrepresent the overwhelming majority of the Fathers who interpreted the days of Genesis 1 as natural days by implying that they arrived at this interpretation “to calculate the earth’s age.” To anyone familiar with the patristic writings, this implication is absurd, since the Fathers interpreted “yom” or “day” in Genesis 1 according to its literary context — not for the sake of calculating the age of the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, a note in the margin of page 37 defines “creationism” as “the idea that God himself by his direct action created the world all at once, as if the book of Genesis were an eyewitness account.” But the authors of YOUCAT do not tell their young readers that virtually all of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church took this “naïve” view, including the greatest Doctors of the Church, men like St. Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Ambrose. St. John Chrysostom expressed the common view of all of the Fathers and Doctors when he wrote that:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the other prophets spoke either of what was to occur after a long time or of what was about to happen then; but he, the blessed (Moses), who lived many generations after (the creation of the world), was vouchsafed by the guidance of the right hand of the Most High to utter what had been done by the Lord before his own birth. It is for this reason that he begins to speak thus: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” as if calling out to us all with a loud voice: it is not by the instruction of men that I say this; He Who called them (heaven and earth) out of non-being into being—it is He Who has roused my tongue to relate of them. And therefore I entreat you, let us pay heed to these words as if we heard not Moses but the very Lord of the universe Who speaks through the tongue of Moses, and let us take leave for good of our own opinions.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-28" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (28)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">YOUCAT’s editors’ misplaced faith in scientific speculation is further exposed in the margin of page 38 where the editors have placed a quotation from physicist Walter Thirring:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that [the unheard-of precision of the processes associated with the “Big Bang”] is supposed to have happened by chance?! What an absurd idea!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The obvious implication of this quotation is that the Big Bang is a “fact” and that young Catholics should welcome this “fact” as a “scientific” confirmation of their belief in a Creator, and in a creation. According to the theistic version of the Big Bang hypothesis, God created the initial matter and energy at the moment of the Big Bang and then allowed them to develop naturally within the framework of the natural laws that He established at the beginning of creation. But, while this hypothesis allows God to create the matter and energy necessary for the universe to develop naturally, it denies the special creation of all of the different living things, including plants, animals, and man — in contradiction to all of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Moreover, in recent years numerous experts in astronomy and other relevant disciplines have rejected the Big Bang and biological evolution as hypotheses without evidence and against the facts.<sup style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-29" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (29)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-42472558508365220502012-08-10T04:35:00.001-07:002012-08-10T04:35:29.349-07:00Objection #5:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YOUCAT teaches that God made an incomplete world filled with defects and deformities.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">YOUCAT’s misrepresentation of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation continues in its summary of questions 47 and 51 where the authors show the consequences of their blind acceptance of Teilhardian uniformitarianism. In reply to Question 47: “Why did God rest on the seventh day?” YOUCAT answers:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God’s rest from his work points toward the completion of creation, which is beyond all human efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the whole history of the Church, no Father, Doctor, Pope or Council has ever taught that God’s rest from the work of creation “pointed towards its completeness,” in the sense that the original creation was unfinished or incomplete. On the contrary, the correct explanation of the “rest of the Lord” was well articulated by the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of Trent</span> which taught that:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the seventh day was called the “Sabbath.” because [God], having <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">finished<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and completed<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the creation of the world, rested from all his work which he had done</span></span></span></span> (emphasis added).<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-30" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (30)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This statement was a reflection of all the Church Fathers and of the Doctors including St. Augustine who wrote: “… God rested from all the works that He made in the sense that from then on He did not produce any other new nature…”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-31" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (31)</a></sup> Similarly, St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summa</span>: “…the completion of the universe as to the completeness of its parts belongs to the sixth day, but its completion as regards their operation, to the seventh…Nothing entirely new was afterwards made by God, but all things subsequently made had in a sense been made before, in the work of the six days…“<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-32" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(32)</a></span></sup></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The essential truth that God created a world that was finished and complete has been withheld from YOUCAT’s young readers who are told that “evolution takes place as God’s continuous creation in natural processes.”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-33" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (33)</a></sup> The YOUCAT view further rings of the Teilhardian vision of a monstrous god who deliberately created an incomplete world filled with physical evils like birth defects and natural catastrophes when it states:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God created the world to be good, but it is not yet complete. In violent upheavals and painful processes it is being shaped and moved toward its final perfection. That may be a better way to classify what the Church calls <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">physical evil</span>, for example, a birth defect, or a natural catastrophe.<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Moral evils</span>, in contrast, come about through the misuse of freedom in the world.<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-34" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (34)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the time of the Apostles until now, no Father, Doctor, Pope or Council in an authoritative teaching has ever taught or tolerated YOUCAT’s distorted implication that God created a world with birth defects before Original Sin. On the contrary, the unanimous teaching of all of the Fathers and Doctors is that God created all of the different kinds of creatures perfect according to their natures, in a state of harmony with man and with each other, and that all deformity and disease was a consequence of the Original Sin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To summarize the very serious previous three objections, the authors’ ignorance of the fatal flaws with evolution theory and with the severe problems of Big Bang cosmology appear to have led to the false conclusion that Scripture contains errors. This is nothing more than a re-emergence of Modernism that has been repeatedly condemned. For example, in 1907, St. Pius X condemned the proposition that “scientific progress demands that the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word and Redemption be re-adjusted.”<span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-35" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (35)</a></sup> This view also ignores the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mandates</em> of<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humani Generis</span></span> not to treat evolution theory as a certain proven fact, and to consider the evidence both for and against the theory.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Are the errors concerning creation really so important to correct given that so many good things are contained in YOUCAT? Let us not forget that the most sorrowful tragedies and developments of the 20th <span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">century had their basis in evolutionary thought; these include eugenics, birth control, abortion, Nazism, Communism, two world wars, and the rise of Modernism, post-modernism, humanism and New Age thought now dominating the West. As St. Thomas Aquinas said, “an error in the beginning is an error indeed.” The <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Church</span></span> states that:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Catechesis on creation is of major importance. It concerns the very foundations of human and Christian life: for it makes explicit the response of the Christian faith to the basic question that men of all times have asked themselves: “Where do we come from?” “Where are we going?” “What is our origin?” “What is our end?”…The two questions, the first about the origin and the second about the end are inseparable. They are decisive for the meaning and orientation of our life and actions.”<sup style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_reference" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youcatrecall.com/index.php/the-recall-3#endnote_anchor-36" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #437f8e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (36)</a></span></sup></span></span></div>
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</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-27544468541625111262012-08-08T02:20:00.001-07:002012-08-08T02:20:12.553-07:00Objection #6:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While not as serious as previous objections, it is nevertheless observed that in its choice of sources, YOUCAT cannot be compared to any other catechism in the history of the Catholic Church. Many non-Catholic and some anti-Catholic authors are quoted, sometimes giving the impression that they are on par with the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, or are somehow more in tune with the Catholic youth than the great Saints and Doctors of the past. Yet the quotations from modern authors are often vague.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like so many things in YOUCAT, the selected quotations give the impression that the document was created to produce a certain off-beat touch to make the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism</span> “cool” for young people. But this is ultimately insulting to the many Catholic young people who want to know and understand the Truth and who resent being offered gimmicks in place of solid teaching.</span></span></div>
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Why do we need faith and the sacraments in order to live a good, upright life?</div>
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<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If we were to rely only on ourselves and our own strength,
we would not get far in our attempts to be good. Through faith we
discover that we are God's children and that God makes us strong. When
God gives us his strength, we call this ?grace?. Especially in the
sacred signs that we call the sacraments, God gives us the ability
actually to do the good that we want to do. [1691-1695]</b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Since God saw our misery, he "delivered us from the dominion of
darkness" (Col 1:13) through his Son, Jesus Christ. He granted us the
opportunity to make a new start in fellowship with him and to walk the
path of love.
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<strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not everyone is called to marriage. Even people who</strong><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> live alone can have fulfillment in life. To many of</strong><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> them Jesus shows a special way; he invites them to</strong><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> remain unmarried “for the sake of the kingdom of</strong><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> heaven” (Mt 19:12). [1618–1620]</strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Many people who live alone suffer from loneliness, which they perceive
only as a lack and a disadvantage. Yet a person who does not have to
care for a spouse or a family also enjoys freedom and independence and
has time to do meaningful and important things that a married person
would never get to. Maybe it is God’s will that he should care for
people for whom no one else cares. Not uncommonly God even calls such a
person to be especially close to him. This is the case when one senses a
desire to renounce marriage “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven”. Of
course a Christian vocation can never mean despising marriage or
sexuality. Voluntary celibacy can be practiced only in love and out of
love, as a powerful sign that God is</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">more important than anything
else. The unmarried person renounces a sexual relationship but not love;
full of longing he goes out to meet Christ the bridegroom who is coming
(Mt 25:6).
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Augustine calls the Holy Spirit “The quiet guest of our soul”. Anyone who wants to sense his presence must be quiet. Often this Guest speaks very softly within us and with us, for instance, in the voice of our conscience or through other interior and exterior<br />
promptings. Being a “temple of the Holy Spirit” means being there, body and soul, for this Guest, for God in us. Our body is therefore God’s living room, so to speak.<br />
The more receptive we are to the Holy Spirit in us, the more he becomes the master of our life, the sooner he will bestow on us even today his charisms for the upbuilding of the Church. And so, instead of the works of the flesh, the fruits of the Spirit grow in us. </span><div class="cl-right"> </div></div></div></div></div></div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-57888985275300704592012-05-17T03:29:00.000-07:002012-05-17T03:29:53.436-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Why is the Church more than an institution?</div>
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<b><br />The Church is more than an institution because she is a mystery that is simultaneously human and divine. [770–773, 779] </b>
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True love does not blind a person but rather makes him see. With
regard to the Church, this is precisely the case: Viewed from outside,
the Church is only a historical institution with historical
achievements, but also mistakes and even crimes—a Church of sinners. But
that is not looking deep enough. After all, Christ became so involved
with us sinners that he never abandons his Church, even if we were to
betray him daily. This inseparable union of the human and the divine, of
sin and grace, is the mystery of the Church. Seen with the eyes of
faith, the Church is therefore indestructibly holy.
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<strong><br />The violent death of Jesus did not come about through tragic external circumstances. Jesus was “delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). So that we children of sin and death might have life, the Father in heaven “made him to be sin who knew no sin” (2 Cor 5:21). The magnitude of the sacrifice that God the Father asked of his Son, corresponded to the of Christ’s obedience: “And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? no, for this purpose I have come to this hour” (Jn 12:27). On both sides,God's love for men proved itself to the very end on the Cross. [599–609, 620] </strong> <br />In order to save us from death, god embarked on a dangerous mission: He introduced a “medicine of immortality” (st. Ignatius of Antioch) into our world of death—his son Jesus Christ. The Father and the son were inseparable in this mission, willing and yearning to take the utmost upon themselves out of love for man. god willed to make an exchange so as to save us forever. He wanted to give us his eternal life, so that we might experience his joy, and wanted to suffer our death, our despair, our abandonment, our death, so as to share with us in everything. so as to love us to the end and beyond. Christ’s death is the will of the Father but not his final word. since Christ died for us, we can exchange our death for his life.</div>
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</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-50522186877576043582011-12-09T04:25:00.000-08:002011-12-09T04:34:11.690-08:00Youcat Around The World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n1"><h1 class="csc-firstHeader">YOUCAT around the World</h1></div>YOUCAT is spreading all over the world! It is currently being translated into twenty languages and has already been released in more than ten! If you click on a continent you can find information about languages, countries and dissemination of YOUCAT in this region.<br />
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<h1>South-East Asia</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available</b> <b>on</b><b> </b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Logo Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius_03.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>English:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td>March 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.kanisiusmedia.com/" target="_blank">www.ignatius.com</a></td> </tr>
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</td> <td>India (English):<br />
Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.atcbooks.in/" target="_blank">www.atcbooks.in</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Kanius Printing & Publishing" height="23" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_kanisiusmedia.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Indonesisch:<br />
Kanisius Printing & Publishing</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.kanisiusmedia.com/" target="_blank">www.kanisiusmedia.com</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
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<h1>Australia / Oceania</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available</b> <b>online</b> <b>(scheduled)</b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Kanius Printing & Publishing" height="23" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_kanisiusmedia_01.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Indonesisch:<br />
Kanisius Printing & Publishing</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.kanisiusmedia.com/" target="_blank">www.kanisiusmedia.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius_04.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>English:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" target="_blank">www.ignatius.com</a></td></tr>
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<h1>Asia</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available</b> <b>on</b><b> </b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius_08.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Englisch:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td>März 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" target="_blank" title="Ignatius Press">www.ignatius.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Russia" height="48" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_izdatelstvo_franziskacev_01.jpg.jpg" width="48" /></td> <td>RUSSIAN<br />
Издательство Францисканцев (Izdatelstvo Franziskacev)</td> <td>August 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.francis.ru/editrice/" target="_blank">www.francis.ru/editrice</a></td></tr>
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<h1>Africa</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available</b> <b>on</b><b> </b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Logo Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius_01.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Englisch:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td>March 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" target="_blank">www.ignatius.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Logo Le Cerf" height="47" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_lecerf_04.jpg.jpg" width="101" /></td> <td>Französisch:<br />
Éditions du Cerf</td> <td>27.05.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.editionsducerf.fr/" target="_blank">www.editionsducerf.fr</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Logo Lannoo" height="24" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_uitgeverij-lannoo.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Niederländisch: <br />
Lannoo Uitgeverij</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.lannoo.be/" target="_blank">www.lannoo.be</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><h1>Northern America</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available</b> <b>on</b><b> </b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius_02.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Englisch:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td>March 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" target="_blank">www.ignatius.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Bayard Presse" height="34" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_bayard-presse.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Französisch:<br />
Bayard Presse</td> <td>27.05.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.groupebayard.com/fr" target="_blank">www.groupebayard.com/fr</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Encuentro" height="41" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_encuentroEE_01.jpg.jpg" width="86" /></td> <td>Spanisch:<br />
Ediciones Encuentro</td> <td>26.06.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ediciones-encuentro.es/" target="_blank">www.ediciones-encuentro.es/</a></td></tr>
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<h1>Central- & South America</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available on</b><b> </b><b></b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ediciones Encuentro" height="44" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_encuentroEE_02.jpg.jpg" width="92" /></td> <td>Spanisch:<br />
Ediciones Encuentro</td> <td>August 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ediciones-encuentro.es/" target="_blank">www.ediciones-encuentro.es/</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Paulus Editora" height="47" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_Paulus_editora_02.jpg.jpg" width="73" /></td> <td>Portugiesisch:<br />
Paulus Editora</td> <td>August 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.paulus.pt/" target="_blank">www.paulus.pt</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><h1>Europe</h1><table border="0" cellpadding="10" class="atw_publishers"><tbody>
<tr> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Publisher</b></td> <td><b>Available on</b><b> </b><b> </b></td> <td><b>Find out more on</b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Pattloch" height="18" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_pattloch_02.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Deutsch:<br />
Pattloch Verlag</td> <td>25.03.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.pattloch.de/" target="_blank">www.pattloch.de</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Karmelitanske Nakladatelstvi" height="26" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_karmelitanske-cz.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Tschechisch, Slowakisch:<br />
Karmelitanske Nakladatelstvi</td> <td>30.04.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.kna.cz/" target="_blank">www.kna.cz/</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Le Cerf" height="42" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_lecerf_03.jpg.jpg" width="90" /></td> <td>Französisch:<br />
Editions du Cerf</td> <td>27.05.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.editionsducerf.fr/" target="_blank">www.editionsducerf.fr</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lanoo Uitgeverij" height="24" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_uitgeverij-lannoo.gif.gif" width="100" /></td> <td>Niederländisch: <br />
Lannoo Uitgeverij</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.lannoo.be/" target="_blank">www.lannoo.be</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Paulus Editora" height="51" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_Paulus_editora.jpg.jpg" width="79" /></td> <td>Portugiesisch:<br />
Paulus Editora</td> <td>30.04.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.paulus.pt/" target="_blank">www.paulus.pt</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ignatius Press" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_ignatius.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Englisch:<br />
Ignatius Press</td> <td>March 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" target="_blank">www.ignatius.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Slomskova Druzba" height="68" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_slomskova_druzba.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Slowenisch:<br />
Slomskova Druzba</td> <td>01.07.2011</td> <td><a href="http://druzba.slomsek.net/" target="_blank">druzba.slomsek.net</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Verbum Croatia" height="25" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_verbumLogo_01.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Kroatisch:<br />
Verbum</td> <td>30.04.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.verbum.hr/" target="_blank">www.verbum.hr</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo" height="40" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_logo-avatar.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Ukrainisch:<br />
Fr. Rostyslav Pendyuk<br />
Commission of the UGCC on Matters of Youth</td> <td><br />
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<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo Pawla" height="61" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_kataliku_pasaulio_01.jpg.jpg" width="31" /></td> <td>Litauisch:<br />
UAB Kataliku pasaulio lediniai</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.katalikuleidiniai.lt/" target="_blank">www.katalikuleidiniai.lt</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Logo" height="40" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_logo-avatar.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Dänisch:<br />
Ansgarstiftelens forlag</td> <td><br />
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<tr> <td><img alt="Edicia Swietego Pawla" height="53" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_swiety_pawel.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Polnisch:<br />
Edycia Swietego Pawla</td> <td>01.06.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.edycja.pl/" target="_blank">www.edycja.pl</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Ediciones Encuentro" height="48" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_encuentroEE.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Spanisch:<br />
Ediciones Encuentro</td> <td>26.06.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.ediciones-encuentro.es/" target="_blank">www.ediciones-encuentro.es/</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Citta Nuova" height="21" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_cittanuova.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Italienisch:<br />
Editrice Citta Nuova</td> <td>15.04.2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.cittanuova.it/" target="_blank">www.cittanuova.it</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Catholica AB" height="27" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_catholica-AB.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Schwedisch:<br />
Catholica AB</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.bokus.com/" target="_blank">www.bokus.com</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Logo" height="40" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_logo-avatar.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Norwegisch:<br />
St. Olav Publishing House</td> <td><br />
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<tr> <td><img alt="Editorial Claret" height="41" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_claret.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Katalanisch:<br />
Editorial Claret</td> <td>August 2011</td> <td><a href="http://www.claret.cat/" target="_blank">www.claret.cat</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="Episcopia Romano-Catolica" height="88" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_Episcopia_Romano-Catolica-rum.jpg.jpg" width="100" /></td> <td>Rumänisch:<br />
Episcopia Romano-Catolica</td> <td><br />
</td> <td><a href="http://www.ercis.ro/" target="_blank">www.ercis.ro</a></td></tr>
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<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">"The ability to give answers to questions regarding one’s own faith has become much more urgent now than in my generation. In the Catechism, which is simply an attempt to present the Catholic Faith, there may be much that people will have difficulty to accept. Some things will seem foreign or contradictory to the way we think today. <br />
But I think that one of the most important tasks of such a book and the work related to it is learning to deal with challenging topics."</blockquote>Faith needs community. The YOUCAT was developed through a joint effort and it should also promote and encourage community. If a community wants to be more than a social gathering, if it wants to be a community of faith, then it needs a common basis. Read and study YOUCAT together!<br />
<a href="http://www.youcat.org/meet-share/online-study-groups.html">Study groups</a> also exist on Facebook! Get involved!<br />
YOUCAT fits well into youth groups, summer camps and confirmation classes!<br />
YOUCAT is ideal for religion classes and Sunday schools!<br />
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</div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-4246607677894437662011-12-09T03:47:00.000-08:002011-12-09T04:08:52.587-08:00YOUCAT photography contest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n2"><h1>YOUCAT photography contest: "The Universal Church"</h1></div>We asked you: What does the term "universal church" mean to you? How did you experience the universal church at World Youth Day? <br />
Our jury had to made some tough decisions, but now proudly can announce: Ladies and Gentelmen, these are the winners of our first photo contest:<br />
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</tbody></table></div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-34156299263539900592011-12-09T03:42:00.001-08:002011-12-09T03:42:40.783-08:00Illustrations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n1"><h1 class="csc-firstHeader">Illustrations</h1></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The entire YOUCAT is commented by illustrative stick figures. They lighten up the format and encourage each person to creatively reflect on his or her faith. They are a part of the identity of YOUCAT. A special highlight is the flipbook on the lower right corner. Have you tried it?</div><div class="csc-default" id="c427"> <div class="csc-textpic csc-textpic-center csc-textpic-above"><div class="csc-textpic-imagewrap csc-textpic-single-image" style="width: 560px;"><img alt="Images of YOUCAT stick figures" height="810" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/pics/cartoons_stickmen_10.jpg" width="560" /></div></div></div><div class="csc-textpic csc-textpic-center csc-textpic-above"><div class="csc-textpic-imagewrap csc-textpic-single-image" style="width: 350px;"><img alt="Animation of stick figure" height="222" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/pics/Daumenkino-Animation_02.gif" width="350" /></div></div></div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170189443043576394.post-4993747898721516722011-12-09T03:36:00.000-08:002011-12-09T03:41:20.650-08:00Youcat Content Structure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><h1 class="csc-firstHeader">Layout and Structure of YOUCAT</h1></div>YOUCAT is full of quotations, references and explanations that help the reader to understand the statements of the Church. It looks like this:<br />
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<tr> <td><img alt="one" height="25" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_aufzaehlung1_04.png.png" style="background-color: yellow;" title="one" width="25" /></td> <td>Questions and answers, numbered 1 - 527</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="two" height="25" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_aufzaehlung2_04.png.png" style="background-color: yellow;" title="two" width="25" /></td> <td>Short and precise answer with refereces to the "Complete Cathechism of the Catholic Curch"</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="three" height="25" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_aufzaehlung3_04.png.png" style="background-color: yellow;" title="three" width="25" /></td> <td>Explanatory text with examples for better understanding</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img alt="four" height="24" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_aufzaehlung4_04.png.png" style="background-color: yellow;" title="four" width="25" /></td> <td>References to further YOUCAT questions (numbers at the end of the text)</td> </tr>
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<div class="csc-default" id="c443"><div class="csc-textpic csc-textpic-center csc-textpic-above"><div class="csc-textpic-imagewrap" style="width: 608px;"><div class="csc-textpic-imagerow" style="width: 608px;"><ul></ul></div><div class="csc-textpic-imagerow csc-textpic-imagerow-last" style="width: 608px;"><ul></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="csc-default" id="c441"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n3"><h1>The name</h1></div>YOUCAT is first and foremost an abbreviation for YOUth CATechism, but there are many more interpretations to it regarding the book as well as faith: YOU are directly addressed. And CAT not only stands for Catechism but also Catholic. Here are some more associations: <br />
YOUth CATechism<br />
YOUr CATechism<br />
YOU CATholic<br />
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YOUth CATholicism <br />
So, YOU are challenged by faith, it's YOUR catechism, make it YOUR own, it's YOUR faith that has been given to you, so make it yours! This is about YOU, YOU are wanted, YOU are needed. Furthermore, youth refers not only to those young in age but also to those young in faith. And when faith is young, questions are the same, whether you are 15 or 50.</div><div class="csc-textpic csc-textpic-center csc-textpic-above"><div class="csc-textpic-imagewrap csc-textpic-single-image" style="width: 543px;"><img alt="Image: Youcat Colors" height="278" src="http://www.youcat.org/uploads/pics/YOUCAT_colors_11.jpg" width="543" /></div></div></div>youcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649532837391932799noreply@blogger.com0