Early Church
This event marks the birth of the Church.
What is Pentecost?
The Profession of Faith recited at Mass.
What is the Nicene Creed?
Rule of life summarized as 'Ora et Labora'.
What is the Rule of St. Benedict?
16th-century revolt led by Martin Luther.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Movement restoring unity among Christians.
What is Ecumenism?
The men chosen by Jesus as His first bishops.
Who are the Twelve Apostles?
A divinely revealed doctrine of the Church.
What is a Dogma?
Religious buildings where monks or nuns lived and prayed.
What is a Monastery?
Council responding to Protestantism.
What is the Council of Trent?
Council presenting unchanging truths in new ways.
What is Vatican II?
A person killed for bearing witness to the faith.
What is a Martyr?
A division caused by refusal to submit to the Pope.
What is Schism?
The separation of the Catholic Church in the East and West in 1054.
What is the Great Schism?
Doctrine stating the pope cannot err when definitively teaching on faith or morals
What is Papal Infallibility?
Devotion revealed to St. Faustina.
What is Divine Mercy devotion?
The head of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome.
Who is the Pope?
The obstinate denial of Church teaching after baptism.
What is Heresy?
Series of wars between England and France that St. Joan of Arc helped France win.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?
Period when three men claimed to be pope.
What is the Great Western Schism?
Culture treating inconvenient life as disposable.
What is the Culture of Death?
The handing on of apostolic authority.
What is Apostolic Succession?
The first ecumenical council affirming Jesus is consubstantial with the Father.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
Period after Rome’s fall marked by chaos.
What are the Dark Ages?
Papal residence in France under royal control.
What is the Avignon Papacy?
Encyclical foundational to Catholic social teaching.
What is Rerum Novarum?