YouCat App

Città Nuova Publishing House, which edited the Italian edition of YouCat, has made available a new application that can be downloaded to the last generation of mobile phones. Giulio Meazzini explains the use of the YouCat App in an interview with Vatican Radio.

Preparations are underway all over the world, preparing young people for their meeting with the Pope. In the backpack that each young person who has registered for WYD will receive, there will also be YouCat, the aid to the Catechism of the Catholic Church made especially ​​for youth with its question and answer format. Just recently Città Nuova Publishing House, which edited the Italian edition of YouCat, has released an application that can be downloaded to the latest mobile phones. It is an “app”, that is, an “application” called YouCat, which enables teens to discuss the issues contained in the Catechism and the WYD. What is it exactly?

“One can download this app to phones that have the Apple operating system, Windows Mobile or Android mobile phones. The functions that are available include a social network like Facebook with a “wall”, a wall for messages where you can share comments, create your own profile, exchange messages and text messages between users as well as create a list of friends, also “famous friends”. We, for example, put in Maritain, Blessed John Paul II, St Francis, Cardinal Van Thuan etc. So every couple of days, via this application, you can receive quotations from these well-known people. In addition, specifically with regard to WYD, through this app, you have the opportunity to receive news updates directly to your phone in different languages regarding the World Youth Day, a daily update on all the events that happen during WYD and also the possibility join a kind of “community” of those participating in the WYD, with information and comments …”.

This responds to what Benedict XVI himself wrote in the premise to YouCat. In fact, the Pope invited youth not only to study the catechism, but also to read it among friends and to form study groups and networks.