Holy Lives
This saint used the term "City of God" to describe God's kingdom eternally present in Heaven and mysteriously present on earth.
Who is Saint Augustine?
This is the term for a culture that does not look beyond the present life and concerns itself only with worldly matters.
What is secular culture?
This ecumenical council brought reform to the Church in response to Protestantism.
What is the Council of Trent?
These religious sisters were arrested during the Reign of Terror because they refused to abandon their religious vows and went to the guillotine singing.
Who are the Carmelites of Compiègne?
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that Jesus was conceived without Original Sin.
What is false? The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without Original Sin.
Before entering religious life, this founder of the Jesuits was a soldier from a noble family.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Loyola?
This is the term for the baptized faithful who serve the Church in the world and are not ordained or called to religious life.
What is the laity?
This movement claimed mankind could rely on human reason alone without God and led to the persecution of the Church in France.
What is the Enlightenment?
Saint Maximilian Kolbe died at Auschwitz by doing this heroic act.
What is offering himself in the place of a condemned prisoner who had a wife and children?
Benedictine monasteries made peace and political unity possible for an emerging Christian society in western Europe.
What is true?
This Carmelite sister took the religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross after converting from Judaism.
Who is Edith Stein?
This is the term for the painted depiction of Christ and the saints, especially the Virgin Mary.
What is iconography?
These two atheistic movements wreaked havoc across the globe in the first half of the twentieth century.
What are Nazism and Communism?
The Nazis closed Father Kolbe's monastery for this reason.
What is to restrict his influence in opposing Nazism?
The universal call to holiness is only for those ordained to Holy Orders or called to religious life.
What is false? The universal call to holiness is for all the faithful of Christ.
This patron saint of parish priests could barely read and came from humble beginnings but became one of the most beloved priests in Church history.
Who is Saint John Vianney?
This is the term for the full list of books in the Bible inspired by the Holy Spirit.
What is the canon of Scripture?
Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette at this location and declared "I am the Immaculate Conception.
What is Lourdes?
The martyrs' suffering bears spiritual fruit and participates in Christ's saving work, bringing growth to the Church. What ancient saying is this based on?
What is "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church?
Priestly and religious vocations flourished during Pope Saint John Paul II's pontificate.
What is true?
This Vietnamese bishop administered Holy Communion secretly to fellow prisoners and said hope was the greatest challenge of the new millennium.
Who is Cardinal Francis Xavier Van Thuận?
This Benedictine practice of prayerful meditation on Scripture and dialogue with God through his inspired Word is known by this Latin name.
What is lectio divina?
This is what Pope Saint John Paul II called for amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 70s — a re-presenting of the Gospel to cultures that had once known Christ but abandoned him
What is the New Evangelization?
The twentieth century holds this distinction in Church history regarding martyrdom.
What is that it saw more martyrdoms than all the previous nineteen centuries combined?
Secular cultures discourage people from rejecting the authority of God's Church.
What is false? Secular cultures encourage people to reject the authority of God's Church.