Famous Last Words
Know Your Popes
The Gospel Truth
Summa & Scripture
Where in the world is Mary?
100

“It is finished.”

Jesus Christ

100

This Pontiff, nicknamed "the good Pope," opened the Second Vatican Council.

John XXIII

100

This is the first of Jesus's miracles in the Gospel of John.

Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana. 
100

Summa or Scripture: 

To love is to will the good of another.

Summa

100

Which Marian Apparition is the patron of the United States?

Immaculate Conception

200

“Viva Cristo Rey!”

St. Miguel Pro  

200

Cardinal Montini of Milan would be elected Pope in 1963 and take the name...

Paul VI

200

Name 4 people at the foot of the Cross according to the Gospel according to John.

John, Mary, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdelene

200

In what century did St. Thomas die, leaving the Summa unfinished?

12th Century

200

In this town, named for a daughter of Mohammed, the Mother of God publicly verified her message to three young children with a vision of the sun dancing in the sky.

Fatima

300

“I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first."

St. Thomas More

300

This church is the official seat of the bishop of Rome and hence the Cathedral of Rome.

St. John Lateran 


300

The Gospel according to Matthew is the only one to mention these characters at Jesus's birth.

The magi

300

Who is the “philosopher” St. Thomas refers to in the Summa?

Aristotle

300

This small village in the Balkans has been the site of alleged apparations of Our Lady since 1981. At first, very controversial, Pope Francis has warmed to the apparitions in recent years and has now permitted it to be a place of pilgrimage.

Medjugorje

400

“Turn me over, for I am done on this side.”

St. Lawrence

400

Who was the second pope?


St. Linus

400

The symbol for this evangelist (or Gospel writer) is an angel or a winged man since this Gospel shows the meek and humble humanity of Christ throughout.

Matthew

Luke is the ox, Mark is the lion and John is the eagle.

400

What are the 3 senses of the spiritual interpretation of Scripture that St. Thomas cites: anagogical, moral and _____?

Allegorical

The spiritual is what applies to the spirit (instructing the morals), raising the spirit up (anagogical) and teaching the spirit through symbols (allegorical). These are all different than the literal/historical meaning of the biblical stories.

400

In this city of a country, rather recently introduced to Catholicism, the Virgin Mother appeared to three young women at college, one of whom was later killed in the genocide prophesied in the apparition.

Kibeho, Rwanda

500

“I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.”

St. Ignatius of Antioch

500

Tradition says that St. Peter is the longest serving Pope in History at either 34 or 37 years. Can you name one of the other two longest serving popes? 

Bl. Pius IX (1846-1878; 31 years, 7 months, and 23 days/11,560 days)

OR

St. John Paul II (1978-2005; 26 years, 5 months, and 18 days/9,665 days)

500

Jesus is questioned at nighttime by this character who cannot understand how one can be born again.

Nichodemus

(AKA "Nic at Night")

500

At the end of his life, St. Thomas had a vision of Heaven. After, the angelic doctor famously began burning his writings claiming they were _____, as if useless.

Straw

500

It was mainly to non-Christians, including the president of the country, that the Mother of God appeared starting in 1968 in this place, which she had already visited before awhile ago.

Zeitoun, Egypt