Chapters 1 and 2 Study Guide
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Write your answers to these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Answers must be in complete sentences.
1. What do we call a major type of Church document, which the Church promulgated during the Second Vatican
Council?
2. What is Charism?
3. What does aggiornamento mean?
4. Which pope saw the Second Vatican Council to the end?
5. Which pope supervised the development of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
6. In which year did the Second Vatican Council end?
7. What did Vatican II’s Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) encourage the faithful to do with
scripture?
8. Who in the Church are supposed to be witnesses to Christ?
9. What title is given to Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Thomas Aquinas?
10. Who wrote Summa Theologica?
11. How many constitutions did the Second Vatican Council produce?
12. What was the goal of the First Vatican Council?
13. Why does the Church exist?
14. Who wrote the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World?
15. Who initiated the Second Vatican Council?
16. What did Pope Pius XII say was the best way to understand Roman Catholic Doctrine?
17. What are the two streams of Word of God?
18. What were the four goals of Vatican II?
19. How did Catherine of Siena challenge the roles of women in her time?
20. Why was the First Vatican Council suspended?
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What three vows do members of the consecrated life take?
What do we call the baptized people called by God to place their gifts at the service of the world?
What does Jerusalem mean?
Define vocation
What do we call the ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons?
Where did God enter his covenant with Moses?
What are the three categories of people that make up the visible Church on Earth?
Who elects the Pope?
Who is the successor of Saint Peter?
Who chooses a bishop to such a position?
Who is included in the communion of holy people within the church?
Whose job is it to help Bishops?
Is the bishop the visible foundation and pastor of the universal church on Earth? Yes or No?
What is a priest’s job description?
What is another name for the Pope?
What is purgatory?
What is the Church a sign of?
Describe two examples of the Covenant presented in the Old Testament
Why is the Catholic Church described as a pilgrim church?
What should we use our talents for? Why?