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Understanding the Catholic Church and Its Traditions

This quiz tests your knowledge of the Catholic Church, its history, and significant theological concepts associated with it.

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1 The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, ________, Lutherans and some Methodists believe that their churches are catholic in the sense that they are in continuity with the original universal church founded by the Apostles.

2 A letter written by Ignatius to Christians in ________[7] around 106 is the earliest surviving witness to the use of the term Catholic Church (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8).

3 The term "________" typically refers to the Roman Catholic Church: in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, made up of the Latin Rite and the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches; this is the common usage in most countries.

4 The ________, while united with Rome in the faith, have their own traditions and laws, differing from those of the Latin Rite and those of other Eastern Catholic Churches.

5 The term Catholic Church is associated with the whole of the church that is led by the Roman Pontiff, currently ________, and whose over one billion adherents are about half of the estimated 2.1 billion Christians.

6 The Latin Rite of the ________ and the twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches consider that they continue and are charged with preserving the catholic tradition as handed down through the Early Church Fathers.

7 [5] Catholicity is considered one of Four Marks of the Church, the others being unity, sanctity, and ________.

8 This church and also Oriental Orthodoxy and the ________ all see themselves as the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" of the Nicene Creed (in distinction from each other, not collection).

9 [6] according to the ________ of 381: "I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church."

10 It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word catholic (universal) to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase "One Holy catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase the Catholic faith in the ________ and the phrase holy catholic church in the Apostles' Creed.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic, Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures.
  • the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Chełm, Poland, now a Catholic church, was formerly an Orthodox one.
  • the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka.
  • the first guidebook to the English Lake District was written in 1778 by Catholic priest Thomas West.
  • the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963.
  • the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party, founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine.
  • the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars.
  • Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine.
  • Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom.
  • James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County executive of Essex County, New Jersey, even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy.
  • Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists.
  • the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators.
  • Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor.
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