Change yourself
„DOCAT answers the question:
‚What should we do?’; it is like a user’s manual that helps
us to change ourselves with the Gospel first, and then our closest surroundings, and finally the whole world. For with the power of the Gospel, we can truly change the world.“
Pope Francis in the Foreword
After the World Youth Day in 2011 when YOUCAT was launched by Pope Benedict XVI, young people from America asked for a “manual for the faith” and they suggested the name DOCAT (to DO + CATechism). The DOCAT contains the Social Teaching of the Church in a “younger” language.
„The world cannot continue down the path that it is taking now. If a Christian in these days looks away from the need of the poorest of the poor, then in reality he is not a Christian!“
Pope Francis in the Foreword
Young people from all over the world sent their photos; young experts in different areas of the social doctrine worked deeply within the project.
The project reached the pope and he gave a strong message for young people in the introduction in which he speaks about his dream. The Pope’s dream is the beginning of a worldwide youth campaign.
„When I invite you all now really to get to know the social doctrine of the Church, I am dreaming not just about groups that sit under trees and discuss it. That is good! Do that! My dream is of something
greater: I wish I had a million young Christians or, even better, a whole generation who are for their contemporaries‚ walking, talking social doctrine’.“
Pope Francis in the Foreword
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