This week, Italian bookstores sold somewhere between 15,000 and 16,000 copies of a book advising youngsters to prevent pregnancy with contraceptives. This was a huge mistake. The book “YouCat” (“Youth Catechism”) was published by the Catholic Church to guide youngsters everywhere away from evil and towards pearly gates of heaven. The book frames the church’s advice by asking life’s toughest questions and printing God’s answers. As tends to be the case, they ran into a little trouble with questions regarding sex.
In the original German text, one question asked whether or not families could “regulate conception”—easily the unsexiest wording of “practicing safe sex” known to man.
The answer, “yes,” explained that Natural Family Planning, or the Rhythm Method where couples refrain from sex while the woman is ovulating, is the only Christian way to plan the size of your family.
But Italians, those rascals, botched the translation, and instead of asking if families could “regulate conception” they asked if they could “use contraceptive methods.” The answer remained in the affirmative, implying that the Church was sanctioning all kinds of bad stuff like condoms, the pill and the trusty ol’ California pull-out.“It’s an embarrassment,” said the Rev. Joseph Fessio who heads Ignatius Press, YouCat’s English-language publisher.
He told The Associated Press that of the 45,000 copies printed in Italian, 15,000-16,000 have already been physically sold.
“The rest they’re going to have to pull them all,” he said, referring to the books, not their penises.
In the original German text, one question asked whether or not families could “regulate conception”—easily the unsexiest wording of “practicing safe sex” known to man.
The answer, “yes,” explained that Natural Family Planning, or the Rhythm Method where couples refrain from sex while the woman is ovulating, is the only Christian way to plan the size of your family.
But Italians, those rascals, botched the translation, and instead of asking if families could “regulate conception” they asked if they could “use contraceptive methods.” The answer remained in the affirmative, implying that the Church was sanctioning all kinds of bad stuff like condoms, the pill and the trusty ol’ California pull-out.“It’s an embarrassment,” said the Rev. Joseph Fessio who heads Ignatius Press, YouCat’s English-language publisher.
He told The Associated Press that of the 45,000 copies printed in Italian, 15,000-16,000 have already been physically sold.
“The rest they’re going to have to pull them all,” he said, referring to the books, not their penises.
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