Council
Popes
Wars
Encyclicals
Vocabulary
100

Council where the Nicene Creed was written and Arian heresy was condemned.

What was the Council of Nicaea?

100

Pope that established World Youth Day.

Who was Pope John Paul II?

100

A series of battles that reflected misguided faith and killed many people.

What were the Crusades?

100

The first great Catholic social justice encyclicals.

What is Rerum Novarum?

100

A place where monks or nuns live.

What is a monastery?

200

The first great Council of the Church.

What was the Council of Jerusalem?

200

Pope that wrote Rerum Novarum.

Who was Pope Leo XIII?

200

Conflicts across Europe due to differences between Protestants and Catholics.

What was the Thirty-Years War?

200

Discussed the teachings of Pope Leo XI's encyclical Rerum Novarum.

What is Mater et Magistra?

200

The secret meeting in which the Cardinals elect a new Pope.

What is a conclave?

300

The Council that affirmed Jesus was one person with two natures.

What was the Council at Chalcedon?

300

Shortest reign in the history of the Church.

Who was Pope John Paul I?

300

The National Assembly threatens Catholicism in France.

What was the French Revolution?

300

Pope Pius XI discussed the positive impact of Rerum Novarum.

What is Quadregisimo Anno?

300

To turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.

What is transubstantiation?

400

Council that sealed with the heresy that Jesus was two, people, one divine and one human.

What was the Council of Ephesus?

400

Pope that gathered 1,200 leaders of the Church for the Fourth Lateran Council.

Who was Pope Innocent III?

400

Wars caused by Napoleon Bonaparte's desire to expand.

What were the Napoleonic Wars?

400

Written to celebrate universal peace in truth, justice, charity, and liberty.

What is Centesimus Anno?

400

The viewpoint that concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, or truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture.

What is relativism?

500

The first truly worldwide council of the Church.

What was the Twenty First Ecumenical Council.

500

Pope that created the Inquisition.

Who was Pope Gregory IX?

500

Pope Benedict pleaded for peace during this war.

What was World War I?

500

Speaks about establishing universal peace in truth, justice, charity, and liberty.

What is Pacem in Terris?

500

A cultural and political atmosphere when nearly everyone was Catholic.

What is Christendom?