<P> The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 2005, and the first edition in English in 2006 . It is a more concise and dialogic version of the Catechism . The text of the Compendium is available in fourteen languages on the Vatican website, which also gives the text of the Catechism itself in nine languages . </P> <P> Youcat, a catechism for youth, based on the Catechism and its Compendium, was published in 2011 . The Vatican has acknowledged that some translations of Youcat contain errors regarding Church teaching on the status of other religions, contraception and euthanasia, whether due to simple error or poor translations . </P>

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