The Church
These are the four characteristics that describe the Catholic Church.
What are ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, and APOSTOLIC?
This is the central mystery of Christian faith.
What is the Trinity?
This concept describes Jesus as having both a human nature and a divine nature in one Person.
What is the hypostatic union?
This sacrament connects priests and deacons with the bishop.
What is the Sacrament of Holy Orders?
This is the living transmission of the Gospel message through the Church.
What is Sacred Tradition?
With the lowercase "c," this word means universal or intended for all people.
What is catholic?
These are the three Persons of the Trinity.
Who are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
According to Catholic teaching, Jesus is fully human and fully _____.
What is divine?
This is the collective body of bishops in union with the Pope.
What is the college of bishops?
This refers to the truths revealed by God that have been entrusted to the Church to preserve, teach, and hand on.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
This mark of the Church refers to its connection to the Apostles and their continuing mission.
What is apostolic?
This Christian virtue involves charity and friendship in which members of human family share material and spiritual goods.
What is solidarity?
This is the term for a teaching that contradicts an essential truth of Christian faith.
What is heresy?
This describing the continuing, unbroken chain of Church leadership that traces back to the Apostles.
What is apostolic succession?
This is a truth that the Church authoritatively teaches as part of the faith.
What is dogma?
The Church's unity is ultimately rooted in this.
What is God?
The Trinity helps Christians understand God as this, a communion of divine Persons rather than someone isolated or alone.
What is communion?
This heresy denied the full divinity of Jesus.
What is Arianism?
Complete the sequence:
Jesus->Apostles->successors->_______
Who are bishops today?
This movement seeks greater unity among Christians and is inspired and led by the Holy Spirit.
What is ecumenism?
The Church's unity can be understood through shared faith, sacraments, leadership, and its connection to this Person.
Who is Christ?
Complete this connection from our review:
Trinty->Love->Church->______
What is solidarity?
This council endorsed Pope Leo's teaching concerning the person of Christ.
What is the Council of Chalcedon?
Why is apostolic succession important to the Church's leadership?
What is because it connects the Church's leadership today to the Apostles and their mission?
This sixteenth-century movement attempted to reform the Catholic Church and eventually resulted in major divisions among Western Christians.
What is the Protestant Reformation?