Early Church & Middle Ages
This deadly plague killed roughly one-third of Europe.
What was the Bubonic Plague?
The Church established these institutions of higher learning
What are universities?
Columbus’s primary goal in sailing west.
What was spreading the Catholic faith?
Appearance that led millions of natives to convert.
Who was Our Lady of Guadalupe?
Event that attempted to secularize France violently.
What was the French Revolution?
The mystical wounds of Christ appearing on a person’s body.
What is stigmata?
A naval victory credited to Our Lady of the Rosary.
What was the Battle of Lepanto?
Christians who followed reformers separating from the Catholic Church.
Who are Protestants?
Colony known for religious liberty for Christians.
What is Maryland?
Groups persecuted by Nazis.
Who were Jews, Christians, and the disabled?
People who are given a special grace which allows them to know God in a uniquely intimate way
What are mystics?
A period of cultural rebirth rooted in classical philosophy
What is the Renaissance?
Council called to affirm Catholic doctrine after the Reformation.
What was the Council of Trent?
Catholic schools supported by parishes
What are parochial schools?
Belief that God created the universe but does not intervene.
What is Deism?
An official papal letter or pronouncement
What is a papal bull?
The Church tribunal aimed at correcting heresy.
What was the Inquisition?
Luther removed books from the Old Testament.
What is using the Jewish canon?
Church response to slavery in the Americas.
What is public condemnation of slavery?
Philosophy claiming morality is personal preference
What is Relativism?
The theory outlining moral conditions for engaging in war.
What is Just War Theory?
Architectural style marked by towering churches built to glorify God.
What is Gothic architecture?
The official Mass standardized after Trent.
What is the Tridentine Mass?
America’s first Catholic bishop.
Who was John Carroll?
Ideology reducing people to class enemies.
What is Communism?