Popes
This is the home country of Pope Benedict XVI.
What is Germany?
Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Priest from France, discovered this U.S. river in 1673. He named it the "Conception River" after the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is "the source and summit of Christian life," according to the Second Vatican Council.
What is the Eucharist?
This is the punishment Zechariah received for not believing the Angel Gabriel that his wife would bear a son in her old age.
What is the inability to speak? Luke 1:20
Father Brown was the best-known character created by this Anglican-turned-Catholic writer from England.
Who is G.K. Chesterton?
I served as Pope the longest of all the Popes.
Who is St. Peter? He served 35 years, next in line is Pope Pius IX - 31.5 years (1846-1878).
This is what became legal in 313AD when the Edict of Milan was issued.
What is Christianity?
Shrove Tuesday is better known by this festive holiday name.
What is Mardi Gras?
This is what happened to the man who sold some property, and kept some money for himself while pretending that he had turned over the entire amount to the Apostles.
What is death? (His wife also died after she lied about whether all the money was turned over to the Apostles) Acts 5:1-11
This is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, which had sales of two million copies in the first six months after its 2007 release.
Who is Pope Benedict XVI?
This is the feast that the church celebrates on February 22nd.
What is the Feast of the Chair of Peter?
In the early days, the feast featured veneration of an actual chair in which the Apostle St. Peter had sat in.
This is the U.S. president that re-established ties with the Holy See - ties that remain unbroken today.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Biblically, if you are alive during this, you will not have to die.
What is the Second Coming?
Besides Jesus and Moses, he is the only other person in the Bible who fasted for 40 days.
Who is Elijah? (1 Kings 19:7-8)
Often listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) follows the attempts of a Catholic bishop and priest to found a diocese in this U.S. territory.
What is New Mexico?
This is the type of government you find in Vatican City.
What is Absolute Monarchy? The Pope is the absolute monarch.
It was in this country, in the early 1930s, that nearly 7,000 Catholic clergy were killed during the "Red Terror."
What is Spain?
These individuals make a promise of celibacy and obedience, but generally do not make a vow of poverty.
What is a Diocesan priest?
In the Old Testament, we have heard that the serpent spoke to Eve, but this animal is represented as speaking too.
What is a donkey? (In Numbers 22, the Lord opened the mouth of a donkey and had the donkey speak to the pagan seer Balaam.)
The author of Love and Responsibility, Memory and Identity, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, and The Jeweler's Shop.
I was pope from 1800 to 1823. I was taken prisoner by Napoleon in 1809. After the United States defeated the Barbary Pirates, thus ending the kidnapping of Christians for slavery, I said that the United States "had done more for the cause of Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom had done for ages."
Who was Pope Pius VII?
This primary Catholic symbol was introduced only after the Protestant Reformation and not before.
What is a Crucifix?
This is the color of vestments that can be worn when substituting for green vestments.
What is gold?
This is Abraham's age when he died.
What is 175 years?
Established by Pope Pius X, this publication is the official gazette of the Vatican appearing about twelve times per year.
What is the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See)?