Mary and The Rosary
Catholic Practices &
Prayers
Catholic Grab Bag
Saints of the 20th & 21st Centuries
Modern Papal History (1900–Present)
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Answer: This prayer is repeated 53 times in a standard Rosary.

Question: What is the Hail Mary?

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Answer: This prayer is traditionally prayed using beads.

Question: What is the Rosary?

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Answer: This is the current Pope.

Question: Who is Pope Leo XIV?

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Answer: This Polish pope played a major role in the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and was canonized in 2014.

Question: Who is Saint John Paul II?

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Answer: This ecumenical council, opened in 1962 by Pope Saint John XXIII, sought to address the Church’s relationship with the modern world.

Question: What is the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)?

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Answer: These are the four sets of Mysteries prayed in the Rosary.

Question: What are the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries?

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Answer: Catholics abstain from meat on this day during Lent.

Question: What is Friday?

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Answer: This is the smallest country in the world.

Question: What is Vatican City?

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Answer: Known as the “Saint of the Gutters,” she founded the Missionaries of Charity to serve the poorest of the poor.

Question: Who is Saint Teresa of Calcutta?

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Answer: This pope issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae, reaffirming the Church’s teaching on human life and contraception.

Question: Who is Pope Saint Paul VI?

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Answer: This was the site of a Marian apparition in 1917 to three children.

Question: Where is Fatima?

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Answer: This noon prayer recalls the Incarnation.

Question: What is the Angelus?

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Answer: This saint is known as “the Little Flower.”

Question: Who is Saint Thérèse of Lisieux?

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Answer: This French Carmelite nun emphasized trust and spiritual childhood in her “Little Way” and was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1997.

Question: Who is Saint Thérèse of Lisieux?

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Answer: In 2013, this pope became the first from the Americas and the first Jesuit to be elected pope.

Question: Who is Pope Francis?

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Question: Where is Fatima?

Question: What is the Assumption?

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Answer: This is one of the Corporal Works of Mercy.

Question: What is feed the hungry?

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Answer: This Catholic priest–scientist proposed the Big Bang theory.

Question: Who is Father Georges Lemaître?

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Answer: This Mexican priest was martyred during the Cristero War and is famous for the words “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”

Question: Who is Saint José Sánchez del Río?

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Answer: This pope established World Youth Day, first celebrated internationally in 1986.

Question: Who is Saint John Paul II?

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Answer: This is the oldest known Marian prayer, beginning “Under your protection…”.

Question: What is the Sub Tuum Praesidium?

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Answer: This prayer includes the line, “Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created; and You shall renew the face of the earth.”

Question: What is the Prayer to the Holy Spirit (“Come, Holy Spirit…”)?

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Answer: This council in 325 condemned the Arian heresy.

Question: What is the Council of Nicaea?

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Answer: This Italian teenager, canonized in 2022, used the internet to catalog Eucharistic miracles around the world.

Question: Who is Saint Carlo Acutis?

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Answer: This pope formally defined the Assumption of Mary as a dogma of the Catholic Church in 1950.

Question: Who is Pope Pius XII?

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