It certainly seems counterproductive to me that any student who actually reads it will find it's a different translation than the one used at Mass.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
"Youth Bible" Problems Persist
Helen Hull Hitchcock in Adoremus on the Catholic Youth Bible (which is provided our Christian Formation students at St. Al's).
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It's not just a different translation, it's a bad translation. And the essays are silly and meaningless; multicultural stuff, moral relativism, presenting the faith as if it were an opinion, linking Catholic practices with some biblical passages as if the rest didn't matter. Far better to get the Prove It Bible for teens, at least there are footnotes and apologetics notes in the added pages.
ReplyDeleteOur church provides each child in the RE program with this waste of money bible. I wish I could throw them away, they are THAT bad.
I think the idea of giving each student a bible is nice, but give them a good one. My fear is that the head of RE thinks the Youth Bible *IS* a good bible, or worse, hopes to indoctrinate some of the students to her liberal way of thinking.
I still have the Catholic Youth Bible by my desk, not impressed by it but I've highlited so much of it I can't do away with it.
ReplyDeleteI hate the essays on the sides that are usually "multi-cultural" connections somtimes to pagan holidays.
I also don't like how anytime the Bible says something hard hitting the essays are there to say something (paraphrasing) "St. Paul didn't really mean this, of course there should be women priests!"