Heya quizzers, I don’t know where the month of June has gone! But I do know the answers to these questions. Do you?
1. Scripture
Who do scholars say wrote the Acts of the Apostles?
- a) St. Peter
- b) St. Paul
- c) St. Luke
- d) St. Andrew
2. Popes
What four-legged animal is pictured on Pope Benedict XVI’s coat of arms wearing a backpack?
- a) a bear
- b) a horse
- c) an ox
- d) a lion
3. Church Trivia
The term “cathedral” comes from what word?
- a) “Cathedraticum,” the tax paid to the bishop by parishes for his administrative needs
- b) “Cathedra,” the bishop’s chair
- c) “Catharsis,” an act of purification
- d) “Cathexis,” a universal gathering place
4. Hawaii’s Beatified
The Bishop Home, in which Blessed Marianne cared for the women patients of Kalaupapa, was named for whom?
- a) Bishop Stephen Rouchouze
- b) Bishop Louis Maigret
- c) Honolulu banker Charles R. Bishop
- d) Bishop Gulstan Ropert
5. Current Events
The 49th International Eucharistic Congress took place June 15-20 in what city?
- a) Toronto, Canada
- b) Salsburg, Austria
- c) Cape Town, South Africa
- d) Quebec City, Canada
6. Picture
The painting above was done by Andrei Rublev in the early 1400s and is often considered the most perfect Russian icon. What does it depict?
- a) the gathering of Jesus, Moses and Isaiah on a mountaintop
- b) the Holy Trinity
- c) three early Church martyrs
- d) part of the Last Supper
7. Religious Orders
Speaking of the Eucharistic Congress, Swiss priest Nicolas Buttet, gave a talk during this year’s conference. He founded a religious community called the Fraternite Eucharistein, which was recognized by the Catholic Church in 2003 and has what central mission?
- a) eucharistic adoration
- b) universal brotherhood
- c) starting religious-focused fraternities at universities
- d) running hospitals
8. Church in Hawaii
Don Francisco de Paula Marin was one of the earliest Catholics in the Hawaiian Islands and was known for having a flourishing what? (See page 12.)
- a) printing business
- b) natural springs on his property
- c) vineyard
- d) ship building company
9. Theology
Catholics believe in transubstantiation, the physical transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus during the consecration. Some Protestant churches believe the bread and wine coexist with but do not become the body and blood of Christ. This is known as what? (See page 24.)
- a) transcontinentalism
- b) consubstantiation
- c) dynamic memorialism
- d) protosubstation
10. Saints
St. Maria Goretti is one of the 10 patrons of World Youth Day 2008. In 1902, a teenage neighbor tried to rape her, and when she said she’d rather die than submit to him, he repeatedly stabbed her. As she was dying in the hospital, she forgave her attacker. How old was St. Maria Goretti when she died?
Answers: 1) c 2) a 3) b 4) c 5) b 6) d 7) a 8) c 9) d 10) b