YouCat Wins the German School Book Prize
(München) "You Cat" which is published by Pattloch publishers 1, the youth catechism of the Catholic Church, has received the German School Book Prize for 2011. The book first appeared in early part of 2011 on the initiative of then Pattloch distributor Bernard Meuser.
"You Cat" was published under the direction of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn together with youth and a group of theologians and religion instructors. The small slender yellow book, which stems from the universal catechism of the Catholic Church, attempts to drawn young people by putting questions of faith to young people in understandable and attractive forms. Essential questions are unfortunately only handled superficially, important Catholic faith content is not mentioned, or even denied.
The "YouCat" in the meantime is available in ovver twenty languages and distributed world wide in over 1.5 million copies. The "YouCat Prayerbook", which appeared last fall also from Pattloch publishers, offers prayers for the success story of YouCat.
The German school book prize will be announced in Eichstaett on the 28th January The award which contains a gift of 2,500 Euros which has been given since 1990 by the "Kuratorium Deutscher Schulbuchpreis" within the society "Learning for German and European Future". The speech will be held by the President of the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Richard Schenk.
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1. The Printing Group Droemer Knaur. is a 50 percent participant in Weltbild, which the German Bishops were recently implicated with for distributing pornography.
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