The Four Marks
These are the Four Marks of the True Church.
What are One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic?
This wound to unity is defined as the total rejection of the Christian Faith by someone already baptized.
What is Apostasy?
This is the year Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church.
What is 1517?
This Ecumenical Council was called between 1545 and 1563 as the official Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This term describes the official public worship of the Church
What is the Liturgy?
This is the official Christian statement of faith where the Four Marks were professionally defined.
What is the Nicene Creed?
This is the refusal of submission to the Pope or communion with the members of the Church.
What is a Schism?
This massive historical event in 1054 resulted in a severe split between the Western Church (Rome) and the Eastern Church (Orthodox).
What is the Great Schism?
This Protestant "Sola" claims that the Bible alone is the sole rule of faith, rejecting Sacred Tradition.
What is Sola Scriptura?
This is the modern movement and effort within the Church to restore unity among all baptized Christians through prayer and dialogue.
What is Ecumenism?
The Church is called this mark because of its fullness of the means of salvation and mission of the human race.
What is Catholic?
This is the term for a baptized person who willfully and stubbornly denies a central dogma of the Catholic Church.
What is a Formal Heresy?
The Church responded to early heresies, like Arianism, by calling these worldwide gatherings of bishops to protect the Deposit of Faith.
What are Ecumenical Councils?
This religious order was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola to combat the Protestant Reformation through education and absolute obedience to the Pope.
Who are the Jesuits
This phrase describes the Catholic teaching that every baptized person, regardless of their state of life, is called to become a saint.
What is the Universal Call to Holiness?
This is the ultimate, divine source of the Church’s unity and Oneness.
What is the Trinity?
This term refers to people born into communities already in schism, who are not personally guilty of the original separation.
What are Separated Brethren?
This English monarch famously broke away from the authority of the Pope in 1534, creating a national schism and declaring himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Who is King Henry VIII?
This Spanish saint fought the errors of the Reformation not with weapons, but by writing The Spiritual Exercises and demanding absolute loyalty to the papacy.
Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola?
These are the three Evangelical Counsels often vowed by those entering religious life to pursue perfect holiness.
Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience?
These are the three specific ways the Church fulfills the mark of being Apostolic.
What are Apostolic Foundation, Apostolic Faith, and Apostolic Succession?
This occurs when a person doubts or denies a truth of the faith simply out of ignorance or lack of knowledge, rather than willful stubbornness.
What is Material Heresy?
This is how the two great schisms historically impacted the Four Marks of the Church.
How did they damage the visible Oneness of the Church?
This is the Protestant Reformers belief regarding the effect of Original Sin on human nature, which differs from the Catholic view that nature is merely wounded.
What is total depravity
This specific Protestant "Sola" claims that human beings are justified by intellectual belief and trust in Christ alone, completely separate from any good works or charity.
What is Sola Fide?