Vatican City, Apr 13, 2011 / 14:24 pm
The Vatican is to create a special working group to review the content of the youth catechism “YouCat.” The book, launched April 13 in Rome, made headlines earlier this week when CNA revealed its Italian language edition appeared to endorse the use of contraception.
A faulty translation from the original German youth catechism was found to be at the root of the error.
At today’s launch Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, who oversaw the creation of “YouCat,” told journalists that after a meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith it had been decided “that a little working group will collect all the observations, all the corrections that will arrive from the various translations, also from the German original. They will do it immediately, and then they will make a list of corrections.”
The role of doctrine congregation in that process was later clarified by the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, who told CNA “It would be wrong to say there is a special group being set up. There isn’t. There will now be a revision process, of course, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will help in that process but they won’t be doing it by themselves.”