Catholic Facts
This prayer was taught by Jesus to His disciples.
What is the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)?
The principle that every person deserves respect and dignity because they are made in God’s image.
What is the Dignity of the Human Person?
The biblical book where God commands humans to "till and keep" the Garden of Eden.
What is Genesis?
This Jewish holiday commemorates the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.
What is Passover?
This popular wellness term describes the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one's health and well-being.
What is 'self-care'?
Mary said this special prayer of praise. It begins, “My soul magnifies the Lord….”
What is the Magnificat?
These are the two types of sins.
What are mortal and venial?
This is the encyclical written in 2015 by Pope Francis focused on environmental stewardship and climate change.
What is Laudato Si’?
This is the holy book of Islam, believed to be the word of God as revealed to the prophet Muhammad.
What is the Qur’an?
This word describes an intense and occasionally disabling fear or reaction to a specific object or situation which often poses little actual danger.
What is Phobia?
The number of times Jesus falls in the stations of the cross.
What is three?
The Catholic Social Teaching principle that calls for helping those in need first.
What is the Preferential Option for the Poor?
This term refers to the careful and responsible management of Earth’s resources.
What is Stewardship?
This religion originated in India and believes in the cycle of reincarnation and karma.
What is Hinduism?
In 2018, this much-decorated Team USA Olympic swimmer went public on the benefits of therapy with an ad campaign for the app Talkspace?
Who is Michael Phelps?
The term for the Christian belief in one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What is the Trinity?
Before there was "live, love, laugh" there were these three theological virtues.
What are Faith, Hope, and Love?
October 4th honors this Italian mystic, poet, and religious order founder known for his preaching and care for animals and the environment.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This country is where the Coptic Church originated.
What is Egypt?
This month is set aside as Mental Health Awareness Month and has been recognized and celebrated since 1949.
What is May?
This sacrament is only conferred upon a man, who, after intense study in the seminary, is about to take the final step to become a priest. It now includes a bishop, presbyter or deacon as well.
What is the Holy Orders?
This term expresses the interdependence of the human family, God’s family, it requires just policies, locally, nationally, and internationally.
What is solidarity?
Known as “Lily of the Mohawks," this is the first Native American saint from the United States—and is popularly considered a patron saint of the environment.
Who is St. Kateri Tekakwitha?
This Chinese philosopher of the 6th-century BC taught ethics, politics, and other ways of life to Yan Hui, Zengzi, and other disciples of his philosophy and eventual religion?
Who is Confucius?
This psychologist is known for his experiments on classical conditioning with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?