These men lived in communities set apart from the world and devoted their lives to God, and they made significant contributions to agriculture, medieval technology, and preserving the Bible and other ancient writings.
Who are monks?
100
This is the good that is collectively shared by a number of people and that is beneficial for all members of a given community.
What is the common good?
100
This heresy, started by Arius, taught that Jesus was not quite on the same level as God the Father.
What is Arianism?
100
This is the sin by which the first humans disobeyed God and thereby lost original holiness and became subject to death.
What is Original Sin?
200
This recent pope, originally named Karol Józef Wojtyła, visited 129 countries during his papacy.
Who is Pope St. John Paul II
200
Priests of this religious order made significant contributions to science in the 1600s, 1700s, and beyond.
Who are the Jesuits?
200
These go along with our human rights, and show how we are obligated to exercise our rights in the correct way.
What are responsibilities?
200
This council gave us the first version of the Nicene Creed, which we often recite at Mass.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
200
This is the free and undeserved gift of God’s loving and active presence in the universe and in our lives,
empowering us to respond to his call and to live as his adopted sons and daughters.
What is grace?
300
This doctrine says that the pope is protected from error when he, by himself or in union with the bishops, definitively proclaims a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals.
What is Papal Infallibility?
300
This saint started many communities of monks, and his motto was "Ora et Labora" (Prayer and Work).
Who is St. Benedict?
300
This is the union of one's heart and mind with all people. It leads to the just distribution of material goods, creates bonds between opposing groups, and leads to the spread of spiritual goods.
What is solidarity?
300
This movement, started in the 1500s by Martin Luther, led to many independent churches being set up, separate from the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism, or the Protestant Reformation?
300
These are the two levels of sin. (One of them is worse than the other.)
What are venial and mortal sin?
400
This is the term for a man who makes a false claim to the papacy.
What is an anti-pope?
400
This modern scientific theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître in the early 1900s.
What is the Big Bang Theory? (not the TV show) :-)
400
This is one modern-day practice which the Catholic Church opposes, because the Catholic Church stands up for the sanctity of human life.
What is abortion, or euthanasia, or assisted suicide, or human cloning, etc.?
400
This council was called in response to the Protestant Reformation, and in response to abuses in the church.
What is the Council of Trent.
400
These are the seven sacraments.
What are Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Reconciliation (Penance/Confession), and Anointing of the Sick?
500
He was the second pope, the next in succession after St. Peter.
Who is St. Linus?
500
This is one way that the Catholic Church contributed (in a positive way) to modern western civilization.
What is ___? (many possible corrrect answers)
500
This is the teaching that nations should not go to war unless they meet specific conditions that could possibly justify the decision to go to war.
What is Just War Theory?
500
This modern-day heresy denies that there is any such thing as “objective truth”. Rather, truth depends upon the individual. If there is no objective or absolute truth, then there is no objective or absolute moral code, so any behavior that feels good or right to the individual is therefore good.
What is Relativism?
500
This is a teaching letter from the Pope to the members of the Church.