Organization of Church
What is a Priest?
ministers that lead the parish, preside at liturgy, and administer the sacraments. They are ordained and preach the Word of God and teach the congregation.
What does Institution mean in regards to the Catholic Church?
The Church is defined in terms of its visible structures, especially the rights and powers of its hierarchy.
The two-word phrase that describes the continuity between the first pope and present pope
What is Apostolic succession?
Roman Emperor who legalized Christianity?
Constantine
The term, coined by Martin Luther, that only faith saves a person
Sola Fide
What is a Deacon?
ministers who Preach, baptise, perform funerals and marriages, distribute Holy Communion, and read the Gospel.
What does it mean to say that Jesus is Servant?
Jesus is the Suffering Servant of God, who was a man who served others.
What is the Church's mission to serve?
The Kingdom of God
What document legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire?
Edict of Milan
This "-ism" is the building of understanding and greater unity among Christian communities.
Ecumenism
What is a Bishop?
Successors to the apostles, teach and maintain the faith, govern the diocese, preside at worship.
What does it mean to say that the Church is a sacrament?
The Church is truly a sign and an instrument of grace to its members and to the world.
This "Ology" is the study of the church?
Ecclesiology
This "-ism" rejected religion as a source of truth and advanced science as the best means for human progress.
Modernism
The first social justice encyclical
Rerum Novarum
What is a lay person?
Make up the majority of the Church's membership and do most of its daily work in parishes. They are called to take a more active role in Church activities.
The name of the first pope in the Catholic Church?
St. Peter
What does orthodoxy mean?
Right teaching especially in regards to Church dogma
This "-ism," inaugurated by St. Antony of the Desert, represented a "fleeing from" the world
Monasticism
This principle asserts that decisions should first and foremost be made on how they will impact the poor
Preferential option for the poor
What is Catholic?
Greek meaning "universal". First used to describe the Church in the early 2nd century.
The name of the current Pope?
Francis
What is infallibility?
This applies to the Papacy (Pope) which says that an error in faith or morals cannot be made
A "splitting" of the Church into factions
What is a schism
This Greek term was used to describe church as community?
Koinonia