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Question | Answer |
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What is the name of the Pharisee who helped spare the lives of Peter and John when he stood up in front of the Sanhedrin? | Gamaliel |
Jesus was very misunderstood by many of His Jewish contemporaries because they were expecting a Messiah who was more like a what? | Military hero |
The word Pharisee means what? | Separated One |
What word means universal? | Catholic |
What was Paul's profession? | Tent-Maker |
Which emperor blamed Christians for the fires of Rome? | Nero |
Where was Paul going when he was struck blind? | Damascus |
Performing baptisms naked was meant to symbolize what? | New Birth |
What is the Church's Birthday? | Pentecost |
Who had a dream in which God told him to "call nothing unclean" - meaning the old dietary laws were now unnecessary? | Peter |
What book of the Bible devotes at least half of it to Paul's extraordinary missionary work? | Acts |
What year was the Council of Jerusalem? | 49 |
What year was the Jerusalem Temple destroyed? | 70 |
What was Paul's hometown? | Tarsus |
We get the word Christ from what Jewish word? | Messiah |
How was St. Peter martyred? | Crucified upside down |
What does Peter's name mean? | Rock |
Paul is often called the Apostle to the _____ | Gentilles |
The Supreme Council of the Jews was called the _____ | Sanhedrin |
Who was the disciple that took a chance and accepted Paul into the Christian fold? | Barnabas |
This man stopped in Samaria to preach before the Gentiles were officially accepted into Christianity | Philip |
What event was held in 325? | Council of Nicaea |
Defenders of the faith were also known as | Apologists |
Which emperor ordered for Christianity to be the official religion and persecuted those who did not adhere to this decree? | Theodosius |
The Church’s procedure for re-accepting these people back into the faith became the beginning of what is now Reconciliation. | Apostates |
What was Emperor Constantine's decree of religious freedom called? | Edict of Milan |
In what year was the Edict of Milan? | 312 |
What did St. Jerome write and in what language? | Vulgate - Latin |
Which saint is known as the “reluctant bishop of Milan?” | Ambrose |
Which work, written by St. Augustine, tells his autobiography? | Confessions |
What is the first name of the pope who stopped the advances of Attila the Hun | Leo |
Which saint formed a double monastery at Kildare? | Brigid |
Which saint is known as “the father of western monasticism?” | Benedict |
Pope Gregory the Great had a great effect on WHAT aspect of the liturgy? | Music |
Who defeated the Muslims and is known as “the hammer?” | Charles Martel |
Which emperor killed the MOST Christians? | Diocletian |
What was the name of Constantine’s capital? | Constantinople |
St. Antony is known as the first what? | Anchorite |
The founder of Arianism was… | Arius |
The first guy to place monasticism in a communal setting was … | Basil |
This word comes from the word for “shoulder” | Scapular |
The motto of st benedict, ora et labora, means what? | Prayer and work |
St. Monica prayed for the conversion of what saint? | Augustine |
Pappas, or father, is where we get the word | Pope |
What year was Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor? | 800 |
The papal states were donated by who? | Pepin the Short |
The practice of laypeople being able to appoint bishops was called what? | Lay investiture |
What event ended lay investiture? | Concordat of worms |
Michael Cerularius, the eastern patriarch, was _______________ by Cardinal Humbert | Excommunicated |
What did St. Thomas Aquinas write? | Summa Theologiae |
The ____________ Papacy took place in France for about 70 years. | Avignon |
Who was Charles Martel’s son? | Pepin the Short |
Who was Pepin the Short’s son? | Charlemagne |
The Inquisition was majorly influenced by what heresy? | Albigensian |
Albigensians were basically the updated version of what heresy? | Manicheans |
Who was called the dumb ox? | Thomas Aquinas |
What was done without the permission of the Pope? | People's Crusade |
St. Thomas Becket was martyred during Mass under the orders of what British king? | Henry II |
Who wrote the 95 Theses and in what year? | Luther, 1517 |
Which Reformer went to Switzerland to set up a theocracy? | Calvin |
What major Protestant doctrine did Calvin introduce to Christianity? | Predestination |
Which reformer believed in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist? | Luther |
Which king was declared a “defender of the faith?” | Henry VIII |
Henry VIII always considered himself to be a _____. | Catholic |
What church did Henry VIII found? | Church of England/Anglican |
Who is the saint who was chancellor to Henry VIII, but then was beheaded? | Thomas More |
Who was invited to the Council of Trent but did not show up? | The Protestant Reformers |
What major Church council reaffirmed all the sacraments? | Trent |
The Jesuits were founded by whom? | St. Ignatius of Loyola |
What did St. Ignatius write? | The Spiritual Exercises |
Luther believed that _______ was the sole religious authority, and left out Tradition. | Scripture |
In what country were Matteo Ricci's missionary efforts seen? | China |
Which religious order in particular was especially sensitive to other cultures when doing mission work? | Jesuits |
Roberto de Nobili dressed and lived as a what? | Hindu Brahman |
Who was the well-respected Jesuit missionary in China? | Matteo Ricci |
Who had settled some areas in Africa, making it difficult for the African natives to be open to accepting Christianity? | Portuguese |
How old was John XXIII when he became pope? | 76 |
What was the year span of Vatican II? | 62-65 |
What pope came after John XXIII and wrote most of the documents? | Paul VI |
The two sources the church returned to during Vatican ii were what? | Scripture and tradition |
What is the Italian word for renewal, which meant renewing the Church’s role and approach to the modern world? | Aggiornamento |
Until Vatican II, only the ________ could be Eucharistic ministers. | Clergy |
Vatican II was all about what kind of evangelization? | Within the faith |
How many documents written in Vatican II? | 16 |