Hierarchy
The visible head of the Church.
Who is Pope Francis?
The gift given by the Holy Spirit, a protection from error.
What is Infallibility?
When the Pope speaks from the chair of authority.
What is ex cathedra?
The whole revelation entrusted to the Church by Jesus Christ and handed on through the Scripture and Tradition by the Apostles and their successors.
What is Deposit of Faith
What the word "Catholic" means.
What is "Universal"?
The invisible head of the Church.
Who is Jesus Christ?
The gift of Infallibility ensures the constant teaching of the Church in these two matters.
Can the true Church teach contrary to what Christ Jesus taught?
What are faith and morals?
No, the true Church cannot teach contrary to what Christ Jesus taught.
Normal, regular exercise of the Church's teaching office.
Ordinary Magisterium
Two disciplines of the faith in our daily lives.
1.What are days of fasting and abstinence?
2. What are holy days of obligation?
3. What are the length of Eucharistic fast?
Another word for representative.
What is Vicar?
The successors of the Apostles.
Name the three most recent men who held the office of the Primacy of Peter.
Who are the Bishops?
Who are Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict the XVI, and Pope Francis
Sinlessness
Are the leaders of the Church sinless?
What is Impeccability?
The leaders of the Church are not sinless - although they should strive for holiness and be an example for the rest of the Church.
A meeting of all the bishops, in union with the Pope.
The meeting in 325 A.D. to define the statement of our Christian beliefs.
What was the name of the creed?
What is an Ecumenical Council?
What is the Council of Nicaea, 325 A.D.
What is the Apostles Creed?
Doctrine concerns things revealed by God. Doctrines cannot be changed even by those in authority in the Church.
Three doctrines of the faith that cannot be changed.
1. Beliefs of the Trinity, Incarnation and the Primacy of Peter and his successors.
2. The Ten Commandments
3. Matter and form of the sacraments.
The Pope and the bishops united with him constitute the teaching body of the Church.
What is Magisterium?
The Pope has three primary authorities.
What is to teach, govern, and sanctify all the members of the church?
You want to live in reality, which means you want to live in ________________.
What is Truth?
The extra ordinary magisterium is exercised in two ways.
1. What is ex cathedra and ecumenical council
Can the disciplines of the Church be changed?
Give an example.
Yes, disciplines of the Church can be changed.
Example: Receiving Communion on the hand or the tongue.
Example: The language in which the Holy Mass is celebrated.
Can the Pope teach error when he defines matters of faith and morals?
What gift if necessary?
Who gives the gift?
No, the Pope cannot teach error when he defines matters of faith and morals?
What is infallibility?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The saintly Christian writers of the early centuries of the Church who are recognized as special witnesses of the Faith?
Who are Fathers of the Church.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of _____________ & ____________.
What are sin and death?
The charism of infallibility is exercised by ...
What is Magisterium?
To comply with the will of an other who has authority to command us in matters of faith and morals.
What is obedience?
The Latin translation: "Servant of the Servants of God"
What is Servus Servorum Dei?