This is a fantastic resource which will greatly help in the re-evangelisation so urgently needed in the West.
Why is it needed? Well, the crisis in the Church has also been that of Western civilization in general, the last half century has witnessed a loss of confidence in objective values, save perhaps that of empirical science. We have become sceptical about a lot of things, and that includes the Church, and so there was less and less emphasis on learning objective "facts" about God and more on how I personally experience God.
Needless to say, when adults encountered adult problems their faith content was that of children from the last time they were catachized, say for Confirmation, and so they could only bring a child's knowledge of the things of God to bear on complex problems, hence many rejected the Faith, not because they knew what the Church taught, but rather because they didn't know.
With the new youth catechism we have a real chance of addressing this problem so that young people can both know about God and the Church, and so come to know and love God and His Church, and so find meaning for their lives and their eternal salvation.
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