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Exploring the Catholic Church: A Quiz on History and Doctrine

Test your knowledge about the history, doctrine, and significant events of the Catholic Church with this engaging quiz.

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1 The ________ in 1059 was created to free papal elections from interference by Emperor and nobility.

2 [115] In China, despite Jesuit efforts to find compromise, the ________ led the Kangxi Emperor to outlaw Christian missions in 1721.

3 The Church teaches that Christ established a New Covenant with humanity through the institution of the Eucharist at the ________.

4 [161] John Paul II canonised many saints and made ________ his personal prelature.

5 The ________ initiated in 1962 was described by its advocates as an "opening of the windows."

6 [129] Although the infallibility of the Church in doctrinal matters had always been a Church dogma, the ________, which convened in 1870, affirmed the doctrine of papal infallibility when exercised under specific conditions.

7 What does the following picture show?  Pope John Paul II with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.   Pope Gregory the Great   Pope John Paul II with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.   Constantine the Great, mosaic in Hagia Sophia, c. 1000

8 [1] The Church's highest earthly authority in matters of faith, morality, and governance is the ________ who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops of which he is the head.

9 [41] The Council of Ephesus in 431[42] and the ________ in 451 defined the relationship of Christ's divine and human natures, leading to splits with the Nestorians and Monophysites.

10 This led directly to the emergence and development of European ________, and its many derivatives.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Communist-led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church's backing of the rival United Goans Party.
  • the Catholic Church denied the German-Nicaraguan Enrique Gottel burial in a Managua cemetery because he was a Freemason.
  • the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did.
  • as a consequence of Earl Rivers' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, was changed to the Bear's Paw.
  • the culture of medieval Poland, the earliest stage of Polish culture, was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church.
  • the Jakub Wujek Bible served as the main Catholic Bible translation into Polish for more than three centuries.
  • under the Poughkeepsie plan, Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits.
  • the Magdeburg Centuries is a 1300-year history of the Catholic Church, written particularly as a criticism of the papacy.
  • the Protestant church of Jistrum in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church, when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts.
  • although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton, Liverpool, was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery.
  • after the six year study A Christian reflection on the New Age, the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age.
  • Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829.
  • Callistus Valentine Onaga oversees a microbank as part of his position as a Roman Catholic bishop in Nigeria.
  • ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental.
  • Professor Ivor Browne was denounced as antagonistic towards the Catholic Church after he came out in support of the mistress of Fr. Michael Cleary.
  • Ludwig Schwarz, the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz, Austria, has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna.
  • Tacchi Venturi, the personal liaison between Mussolini and the popes, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy.
  • Pino Puglisi was a Roman Catholic priest in the deprived Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia.
  • Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is one of the largest Catholic churches in United Kingdom.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church.
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