CHAPTER 1
1. The Feast of the Annunciation is on March 25 of each year.
2. The Annunciation is when the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and said she would have a son and name him Jesus.
3. We read about the Annunciation in the Bible from St. Luke.
4. Mary is the greatest woman in the history of the world.
5. The Hail Mary and the Angelus were the two prayers that recall the Annunciation.
CHAPTER 2
1. The word Bethlehem means ‘House Of God’.
2. Mary and Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled in a census because they were from the Jewish tribe of David.
3. Mary and Joseph stayed in a stable because all the inns and hotels were full.
4. Jesus was born in a stable.
5. The night Jesus was born the Angels sang ‘Glory to God in the Highest; and on Earth peace to men of good will’.
CHAPTER 3
1. Our Lord was thirty years old when he began his public life.
2. The Passover was one of the Jewish annual feasts that recall the time that the Jews had been delivered by God from the cruel Egyptians.
3. During the Last Supper Our Lord first celebrated Mass, first ordained the Apostles priests and bishops, and first gave them Holy Communion.
4. The Mass is the body and blood of Christ is offered up to God under the appearances of bread and wine.
5. Holy Communion is receiving the body and blood, the soul and divinity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 4
1. Good Friday is the day that Christ died so that the punishment of Original Sin might be lifted from the world.
2. Christ died so that the punishment of Original Sin might be lifted from the world.
3. In the court of Caiphas Our Lord was accused of claiming to be God.
4. In the court of Pontius Pilate Our Lord was accused of claiming to be King.
5. The Jews chose to free Barabbas, a murderer, instead Our Lord.
CHAPTER 5
1. The three most important gardens in the world are Garden of Eden, Garden of Gethsemani and the Easter Garden.
2. Joseph of Armimathea asked Pilate for Jesus’s body.
3. Mary Magdalen and some other woman went to anoint the body of Jesus in he tomb.
4. Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalen in the garden.
5. Easter is the greatest feast day of the Church because if is the day of the Lord’s Resurrection.
CHAPTER 6
1. Jesus ascended into heaven forty day after Easter.
2. Before Jesus went to heaven, He told the disciples to teach and baptize all nations.
3. We read about the Ascension in the Book of Acts.
4. The first and greatest form of Catholic Action is the conversion of the whole world.
5. We still find Jesus in the Catholic Church.
CHAPTER 7
1. The Feast of Pentecost recalls the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles.
2. The Feast of Pentecost occurs fifty days after Easter.
3. The Holy Ghost removed their fear to preach the Gospel.
4. St. Peter made three thousand converts after his first sermon.
5. Pentecost is called the birthday of the Church because the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles.
CHAPTER 8
1. Our Lord made St. Peter the first pope.
2. Our Lord called him Peter.
3. Peters original name was Simon.
4. Peter died in Rome.
5. Peter’s brother was Andrew, one of the Apostles.
CHAPTER 9
1. The first martyr of the Catholic Church was Saint Stephen.
2. The duties of a deacon were to distribute goods and money to the poor.
3. The Acts of The Apostles is about the deeds and activities of the Apostles.
4. The word martyr means a witness used to describe one that has died for the faith.
5. The first martyr said “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”
CHAPTER 10
1. Saint Paul was born in the Roman City of Tarsus.
2. Saint Paul’s race was Jewish of the tribe Benjamin.
3. Saint Paul’s other name was Saul.
4. Saint Paul traveled from Tarsus to Damascus to arrest any Jew who had become a Christian.
5. On Saint Paul’s journey Christ appeared to him.
CHAPTER 11
1. The followers of Our Lord were first called Christian in the city of Antioch.
2. The dates of Paul’s first missionary journey are 45-49 AD.
3. The dates of Paul’s second missionary journey are 51-54 AD.
4. The dates of Paul’s third missionary journey are 54-58 AD.
5. St. Paul was called Apostle of the Gentiles because the Jews rejected his message so he took it to the Gentiles.
CHAPTER 12
1. The last Gospel of the Mass is the first fourteen verses of he Gospel of John read by the priest at the end of Mass.
2. The last Gospel of the Mass was written by St. John.
3. John is called divine because he always preached about the divinity of Our Lord.
4. John is called beloved because he was always very close to Our Lord.
5. The last book of the Bible is called the Apocalypse
CHAPTER 13
1. A Church Council is the Bishops and priests are gathered together by the Pope to discuss something..
2. The first Church Council held by the Catholic Church was called Council of Jerusalem.
3. We can read about the first Church Council in Acts XV: 6-21.
4. The first converts to the Catholic faith were the Jews.
5.The Council was called to determine if converts had to become Jews before they became Catholics.
CHAPTER 14
1. The Catholics refused to worship the Roman Emperor because Christ, not the Emperor, was God.
2. The Roman Emperor punished the Christians by persecuting them.
3. The Coliseum was an arena where Christians were put to death.
4. In the beginning the Church was persecuted for three hundred years.
5. Three of the Roman Emperors who tried to destroy the Catholic faith were Nero, Trajan, and Decius.
CHAPTER 15
1. The catacombs were 30-50 feet below the earth’s surface.
2. The catacombs were used for burying people in the walls.
3. The catacombs were used because there were no other places to bury the Christians.
4. The catacomb building ceased when the persecutions ceased.
5. The catacombs teach us that the early Catholics had the same faith, hope, and love as the Church today.
CHAPTER 16
1. Constantine’s father and mother were Constantius and St. Helena.
2. Constantine became emperor when he pledged himself to the Cross and defeated Maxentius and his army.
3. Constantine’s opponent was Maxentius..
4. At the Milvian Bridge Constantine defeated Maxentus and his army.
5. Pope Sylvester I received Constantine into the Church.
CHAPTER 17
1. The Roman persecutors failed to destroy the Church because is was from God.
2. The Roman Emperor that asked the Christians to pray for him was Galerius.
3. The Roman Emperor that allowed Christians to worship God was Constantine.
4. The name of the document that gave freedom to the Christians was called Edict of Milan.
5. The blood of the martyrs was the ‘Seed of the Church’ because is resulted in the Church being recognized by Rome.
CHAPTER 18
1. The part of the Mass where the priest says the Nicene Creed is after the Gospel.
2. Nicene Creed receives its name from the city where is was written.
3. The false doctrine that Arius taught denied the divinity of Our Lord.
4. A heretic is a person that rejects some of the teachings of Our Lord.
5. The Saint that opposed Arius was Saint Anthanasius.
CHAPTER 19
1. The True Cross refers to the Cross on which Our Blessed Lord died.
2. St. Helena discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem.
3. The Cross was found in Jerusalem in the fourth century.
4. It is wrong to say that Catholics worship relics because Catholics only honor the relics because of the person they belonged to.
5. We celebrate the finding of the Cross on May 3rd and September 4th.
CHAPTER 20
1. An apostate is one who gives up all of his faith.
2. The Empereror Julian became an apostate.
3. Julian lived in the 4th century.
4. St Ambrose was Bishop of Milan.
5. Ambrose reproved the emperor Theodosius because he massacred the population of Thessalonica.
CHAPTER 21
1. The mother of Saint Augustine was Saint Monica.
2. Saint Augustine was born in Tagaste at the time of 354 A.D.
3.Saint Augustine did not follow the ways his mother taught him.
4. The great saint that converted Augustine was Saint Ambrose.
5. Two books that Saint Augustine wrote were ‘Confessions’ and the ‘City of God’.
CHAPTER 22
1. Saint Jerome lived from 340 to 420 A.D.
2. The Pope that was Saint Jerome’s friend was Pope Damasus I
3. The language that all the people spoke was Latin.
4. The Bible is the inspired Word of God.
5. Saint Jerome’s translation is called vulgate because it was in Latin which was ‘common’ language of the day.
CHAPTER 23
1. Attila was called the Scourge of God because Attila and his men killed and destroyed anything in their way.
2. The Huns were the warriors (tribal name) under Attila’s control.
3. The Roman General Aetius saved France from the Huns.
4. The city of Venice started when the Venetians fled from their town to some islands.
5. Pope Leo the Great saved Rome.
CHAPTER 24
1. The Roman Empire extended around the Mediterranean Sea.
2. The German tribes and barbarians lived in Europe at the time of the Roman Empire.
3. The Germans in Europe were uncivilized barbarians.
4. The Roman Empire became weak because of vice and immorality.
5. In 476 AD the last Roman Emperor was killed.
CHAPTER 25
1. St. Benedict was born in 480 AD.
2. Benedict devoted his life to God when he took refuge in a narrow mountain cave.
3. Members of religious orders take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
4. The Benedictine monks copied literature, cultivating fields, and founded schools and taught at them.
5. The Benedictine orders produced over 15 hundred Saints.
CHAPTER 26
1. Pope Gregory brought the conversation of England.
2. Gregory called the English boys he saw in Rome Angels.
3. Gregory sent forty Benedictine monks under the leadership of Augustine (of Canterbury) to England.
4. The English were converted in the seventh century.
5. Athelbert of Kent was the king of England at that time.
CHAPTER 27
1. The Lombards were a Germanic tribe in that settled in Northern Italy.
2. The man first called the “Servant of the Servants of God” was Pope Gregory the Great.
3. Thereligious order that Pope Gregory the Great belonged to was the Benedictines.
4. A breviary is a book that contains official prayers that the priest must say every day.
5. The Dialogues that Pope Gregory were about the lives of saintly people in his time.
CHAPTER 28
1. Saint Patrick first came to Ireland as a slave.
2. Saint Patrick returned to Ireland in 422 A.D.
3. Saint Patrick worked among the Irish for sixty years.
4. The Protestants Queen Elizabeth and Oliver Cromwell tried to destroy Saint Patrick’s work in later years.
5. The English did not succeed in destroying the Church in Ireland.
CHAPTER 29
1. The Franks were a Germanic tribe in France.
2. France used to be called Gaul.
3. King Clovis’s wife was Clotilda.
4. Clovis prayed to God for victory in a difficult battle and honored his promise to convert.
5. Clovis was King of the Franks from 481-511 A.D.
CHAPTER 30
1. In the seventh century Ireland was called the Island of Saints and Scholars.
2. St. Columba founded the great Scottish abbey of Iona.
3. The Irish Saints Columba, Gall and Wilfred preached in Switzerland.
4. Saint Boniface was the Apostle of Germany.
5. Boniface’s real name is Winfred.
CHAPTER 31
1. The Patrimony of Saint Peter is also called Papal States.
2. The Frankish King that gave land to the Pope was called Pepin.
3. One of the Catholic women that left her possessions to the Church was Countess Matilda of Tuscany.
4. The Papal States were in the northeast and southwest of Italy.
5. The lands the Church possessed would make the Church independent.
CHAPTER 32
1. Mohammedanism was the false religion also known as Islam.
2. Hegira means flight.
3. The Koran is a Mohammedan bible.
4. The religion of Mohammedanism was a religion of the sword.
5. Mohammedanism threatened the church for one thousand years.
CHAPTER 33
1. The Catholic hero that saved Europe from Mohammed was Charles Martel.
2. The year that the followers of Mohammed went into France was 732 A.D.
3. It was necessary to stop the Moslems because they were going to destroy all the Christian faith in Europe.
4. The Moslems were defeated in the city of Tours.
5. The result of the Battle of Tours was the defeat of the Mohammedans.
CHAPTER 34
1. We have picture of Our Lord, Mary, and the Saints in our Church to recall their faces and lives.
2. The word Iconoclasm means breaking of images.
3. The ruler of Constantinople that wanted all the images broken was Leo III.
4. The Pope that rebuked the Emperor was Pope Gregory II.
5. It is wrong to say Catholics worship images because we worship God alone and only honor images.
CHAPTER 35
1. Charlemagne went to Rome to rescue the Pope from his enemies.
2. Pope Saint Leo III was Charlemagne’s friend.
3. Charlemagne was not just a soldier but was a great leader (secular and religious) of his people.
4. Charlemagne was crowned Emperor on Christmas Day A.D. 800.
5. The Pope made Charlemagne Emperor because he restored peace to the Eternal City and loved the Church.
CHAPTER 36
1. The two great Apostles to the Slavs were St. Cyril and St. Methodius.
2. St. Cyril and St. Methodius lived in the ninth century.
3. St. Cyril and St. Methodius preached in Slavonic.
4. St. Cyril invented the Slavonic alphabet.
5. Pope Adrian II did approve their use of the Slavonic language.
CHAPTER 37
1. The three modern countries the Northmen came from were Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
2. The people are called Vikings because they were brave and warlike.
3. Canute the Great became the king of England.
4. The first missionaries to the Northmen were Catholics from England and Normandy.
5. Saint Ansgar was one of the most famous missionaries who brought faith to the Northmen.
CHAPTER 38
1. The famous Roman saint that freed the slaves was Saint Melania.
2. The word serf means a working man.
3. Trinitarians ransomed slaves from the Turks.
4. The Order of Our Lady of Ransom was a13th century order that ransomed slaves from the Turks.
5. The Church is called the mother of freedom because men were free as long as they listened to the Church.
CHAPTER 39
1. Our Lord promised the disciples the gift of peace.
2. The Peace of God mean all persons who have dedicated their lives to God and all consecrated places were protected from warfare.
3. The Truce of God meant warefare was forbidden from Wednesday evening until Monday morning of each week and the whole seasons of Lent, Advent, and Easter.
4. The Prince of Peace is a name for Our Lord.
5. The most horrible wars have been waged since the sixteenth century.
CHAPTER 40
1. The marks of a gentleman are courtesy, consideration and never taking advantage of the weak.
2. Our Lord said ,”Learn of me because I am meek and humble of heart”, and ,” Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy”.
3. Chivalry is a word to describe gentlemanliness in the Middle Ages.
4. The duties of a Christian knight were to be true to God, be courteous towards women, to be generous and merciful to his opponents, and to fight on the side of the weak and oppressed.
5. The world has been happy when the ideals of chivalry were practiced.
CHAPTER 41
1. The word guild means union.
2. The Merchant Guilds protected the rights of merchants.
3. The Craft Guilds were protected certain trade merchants from other merchants.
4. The word apprentice means beginner.
5. Lowell agreed that the workingman was happier in the Dark Ages than today.
CHAPTER 42
1. Palestine is in the eastern end of the Mediterranean.
2. The governor of Judea when Christ was alive was Pontius Pilate.
3. The English word crusade comes from the Latin word crux (cross).
4. The First Crusade began in November, A.D. 1095.
5. There were eight crusades in all.
CHAPTER 43
1. The Holy Roman Empire began with the coronation of the Frankish King Charlemagne.
2. The investiture quarrel was between the emperors and the Church as to who would appointment bishops.
3. Hildebrand selected the name Gregory VII when he became pope.
4. The German Emperor Henry IV tried to interfere with the Church.
5. At Canossa Henry IV did penance to in order to convince the Pope to remove his excommunication.
CHAPTER 44
1. Constantinople was originally called Byzantium.
2. The city was called Constantinople in honor of the Emperor Constantine.
3. The Patriarch Michael Caerularius refused to obey the Pope.
4. Schism is refusing to acknowledge the supreme authority of the Pope.
5. Uniats are the Eastern Greek Catholics who are united to the Pope (not in schism).
CHAPTER 45
1. Thomas A Becket lived in the 12th century.
2. King Henry II was King of England in the time of Thomas Becket.
3. King Henry II wanted to keep Church donations and appoint his own bishops.
4. Thomas Becket held the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.
5. Four men who heard the King say ‘rid me of the insolent priest’ brought about the murder of Thomas Becket.
CHAPTER 46
1. The Turks recaptured Jerusalem in A.D. 1187.
2. The Turk’s leader was Saladin.
3. A mosque is the name applied to a temple were the Mohammedan god “Allah” is worshiped.
4. The Christian leaders in the Third Crusade were King Richard of England and King Philip Augustus of France.
5. The result of the Third Crusade was that Christians could make pilgrimages and have Mass in the Holy Land.
CHAPTER 47
1. The century that Pope Innocent III lived in was the 13th century.
2. The French King that was refused a divorce by Pope Innocent III was King Philip Augustus.
3. King John of England was a bad king who oppressed his people and the Church.
4. The charter of liberty that was secured by English Catholics was the Magna Carta.
5. The year that the Magna Carta was secured was in June, A.D. 1215.
CHAPTER 48
1. The century that is sometime called the greatest century is the Thirteenth century.
2. The mother of Saint Louis of France was Blanche of Castile.
3. Saint Louis of France learned to be respectful toward God and man from his mother.
4. Saint Louis fought against the Turks to rescue the Holy Land.
5. Saint Louis died near the city of Tunis in the A.D. 1270.
CHAPTER 49
1. Poverello means the little poor man.
2. Saint Francis repaired the churches in Assisi.
3. The year that the Franciscan order was established was A.D.1209.
4. The Poor Clares of Assisi are women who wanted to devote their lives to poverty and good deeds.
5. The stigmata of Saint Francis are the marks of Jesus Christ on his hands, feet, and side.
CHAPTER 50
1. The religious community is a society of men or women who have consecrated themselves to God.
2. Another name for a religious community is Religious Orders.
3. The Albigenses were wicked men who tried to get people from southern France to revolt against the Church.
4. Dominic founded the Dominican Order in A.D.1215.
5. The special devotion and prayer that was used by Dominic was the rosary.
CHAPTER 51
1. Saint Albert the Great was a famous Dominican teacher.
2. Saint Thomas wrote ‘Devoutly I Adore Thee’ (Adoro Te Devote) in honor of the Blessed Sacrament.
3. St. Thomas is called the Angel of schools because of his holy life and holy writings.
4. St. Thomas’s greatest book is called Summa Theologica.
5. Theology is the subject that tells us about God and God’s relations with man.
CHAPTER 52
1. The school follows the cross means that a school is often built after the local church ?
2. The oldest University in America is in Peru.
3. Some Catholic Universities in Europe are in Paris, Oxford, and Bologna.
4. Our Lord gave the Catholic Church the right and power to teach.
5. Catholic boys and girls should go to Catholic schools because they are also taught religion.
CHAPTER 53
1. The word Gothic refers to a barbarian tribe from the time of the Roman Empire.
2. Gargoyles are grotesque figures of men and demons which served as water spouts.
3. The first cathedrals of the Church were called Romanesque because they were made in an old Roman fashion.
4. Pointed arches were in the Gothic and Romanesque cathedrals.
5. In the Twelfth Century the Gothic cathedral became famous.
CHAPTER 54
1. Pope Saint Gregory the Great made most of the music for the Church.
2. Franz Haydn was a musical composer in the 18th Century.
3. One hymn by Cesar Franck was “Panis Angelicus”.
4. One sacred song from Franz Schubert was “Ave Maria”.
5. Other famous musicians include Verdi, Mozart, Liszt, and Donizetti.
CHAPTER 55
1. Renaissance means rebirth.
2. The greatest Catholic artist lived in the 14th-17th centuries A.D.
3. The sculpture of Moses was one work of Michelangelo.
4. The painting Sistine Madonna was one work of Raphael.
5. The painting The Last Supper was one work of Leonardo da Vinci.
CHAPTER 56
1. The books of the New Testament were written in Greek.
2. William Shakespeare was a famous English Catholic author.
3. Dante was a famous Italian Catholic author.
4. Michael de Cervantes was a famous Spanish Catholic author.
5. Moliere was a famous French Catholic author.
CHAPTER 57
1. Avignon is in southern France.
2. The Babylonian Captivity of the Church was when several Popes were held captivity by the Kings of France.
3. The king that interfered with the freedom of the Church was Phillip the Fair.
4. The Pope that opposed him was Pope Boniface VIII.
5. The first person that became a prisoner of Avignon was Clement V.
CHAPTER 58
1. The savior of France in the fifteenth century was Joan d’ Arc.
2. The King of France that she aided was King Charles VII.
3. Joan was born in Domremy, A.D. 1412.
4. The Saint that appeared to Joan was Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Catherine St. Margaret.
5. Joan died by fire.
CHAPTER 59
1. Manuscript means written by hand.
2. The Catholic monks preserved all ancient writings.
3. Printing was invented in the 15th century.
4. Johann Gutenberg invented printing.
5. The Bible was the first book printed.
CHAPTER 60
1. Basilica means royal.
2. Apse is the circular place where the altar stands.
3. Narthex is a porch opposite of the apse.
4. The four important Basilicas in Rome are of St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John Lateran, and of St. Mary Major.
5. The Vatican Basilicas were rebuilt in the 15th-17th centuries.
CHAPTER 61
1. The two tribes that made the Spanish colony spring were the Visigoths and native Roman people.
2. The Moors were Mohammedian tyrants.
3. The Moors crossed into Spain eighth century.
4. The Moors tried to destroy the civilization in Spain for over seven hundred and fifty years.
5. Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Spain drove the last of the Moors out of Spain.
CHAPTER 62
1. The ships of Columbus were the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
2. The Spanish Queen that helped Columbus was Queen Isabella of Castile.
3. Columbus landed on one of the Bahama Islands that he called San Salvador.
4. Columbus made three voyages to America.
5. The first Mass in the New World was said in Haiti.
CHAPTER 63
1. Columbus, Cartier and Cabot were Catholic explorers in the 16th century.
2. The southeast and southwest area of the United States was civilized by the Spanish.
3. Canada and in some of the Mississippi River Valley of the United States was civilized by the French.
4. The New World as called America after the mariner named Amerigo Vespucci.
5. The famous priest Father Marquette had a statue erected in Washington.
CHAPTER 64
1. Priests accompanied all the Spanish Explorers.
2. Reductions in Paraguay means the Jesuit protection and teaching of the Indians.
3. The Indians were taught Christianity and civilization.
4. The famous Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas defended the Indians in Mexico.
5. Slavery was abolished in Mexico in 1537.
CHAPTER 65
1. The Church wants all men to be good and holy.
2. Those who do wrong are themselves to blame, not the Church.
3. Three men that tried to destroy the Catholic faith in the sixteenth century were: Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox.
4. The wicked leader that admitted that the Protestant Reformation a failure was Martin Luther.
5. The purpose of the Council of Trent was to state again the great truths of Our Lord and to pass laws against those who rebelled against the Church.
CHAPTER 66
1. Saint Ignatius of Loyola served God by saying he was going to live for Our Lord alone.
2. The Society of Jesus was born in A.D.1491.
3. The followers of Saint Ignatius are also called Jesuits.
4. The great work that the Jesuits devoted their life to was education of the mind and soul.
5. The most famous of Saint Ignatius’ companions was Saint Frances Xavier.
CHAPTER 67
1. Charles Borromeo lived in the 16th century.
2. St. Charles was Archbishop of Milan.
3. Pope Pius IV was Charles’ uncle.
4. In the midst of the plague Charles remained in Milan and nursed the sick.
5. Charles died when he was 46 years old.
CHAPTER 68
1. The Turks were Moslems who wanted to destroy Christianity.
2. The Turks captured Constantinople in A.D. 1453.
3. The Gulf of Lepanto is off the shores of Greece.
4. Don Juan of Austria was the leader of the Christian fleet.
5. The Turkish fleet was destroyed at Lepanto in A.D. 1571.
CHAPTER 69
1.Julius Caesar made the Julian Calender, he thought that 365 days was inaccurate.
2. Pope Gregory XIII made the Gregorian Calender to account for the ten missing days from the Julian Calendar.
3. The year that our modern calender began was A.D. 1582.
4. The modern calender began on October 15.
5. Some countries refused to adopt the Gregorian Calender because they had broken away from the Catholic faith.
CHAPTER 70
1. Henry VIII was once called the ‘Defender of the Faith’ because Martin Luther attacked the Pope and the Church and Henry defended them both.
2. Henry VIII’s wife was Catherine of Aragon.
3. The Act of Supremacy resulted when Henry VIII forced Parliament to declare tha the was head of the Church in England and not the Pope.
4. The two saints that chose not to accept the Act were Bishop John Fisher and Saint Thomas More.
5. Monasteries that didn’t follow Henry VIII were closed down and their property confiscated.
CHAPTER 71
1. Edward VI brought the Protestant religion to England.
2. Queen Mary belonged to the Catholic religion.
3. Queen Elizabeth promised Queen Mary she would defend the rights of the Catholic Church in England.
4. Queen Elizabeth did not keep her promise to Mary.
5. We call Queen Elizabeth the most bigoted and brutal English Queen because she lacked the womanly qualities of mercy and tenderness and she persecuted the Church.
CHAPTER 72
1. Frederick Ozanam was a great Catholic Frenchman who founded the Society of Vincent de Paul.
2. St. Louise de Marrilac was the foundress of the Sisters of Charity.
3. The Vincentians are the followers of St. Vincent de Paul.
4. The Vincentians are called the “Congregation of the Mission” because they went out and instructed and helped the poor.
5. St. Vincent de Paul preferred to work among the poor.
CHAPTER 73
1. Father Anthony Daniel, Father John De Brebeuf, Father Gabriel Lalemand, and Rene Goupil are some of the Jesuit martyrs in North America.
2. The state in which they preached to the Indians was New York State.
3. The Iroquois Indians did not like the Jesuits because they helped their enemy the Huron Indians.
4. The Lilly of the Mohawks was Catherine Tegakwitha.
5. We celebrate the martyrs’ feasts on September 26th.
CHAPTER 74
1. The three countries that divided Poland for themselves were Austria, Russia, and Prussia.
2. The took place in the years 1772 -1795.
3. Poland was re-established as a free nation in 1918.
4. The century that King John Sobieski lived in was the 17th.
5. King John saved Vienna and the Christians in the East from the Turks.
CHAPTER 75
1. God is the source of all authority.
2. Inalienable rights means that God has given every man and every family certain rights which no government should ever attempt to take away from them.
3. The consent of the governed must be possessed by a just government.
4. St. Robert Bellarmine and St. Francisco Suarez are the two great teachers of democracy.
5. Thomas Jefferson used there teachings in the Declaration of Independence.
CHAPTER 76
1. The pilgrim fathers did not practice religious freedom in America.
2. Father White accompanied the Catholic settlers to Maryland.
3. Maryland passed an act of religious freedom in 1649.
4. The Maryland act only mentioned Christians because there were no other religions in the colony.
5. Religious freedom was first granted in New York in 1683.
CHAPTER 77
1. Charles and Daniel Carroll are Catholic signers of the Declaration of Independence.
2. Bishop John Carroll belonged to the Jesuit religious order.
3. The Continental Congress sent Bishop Carroll to Canada because they wanted the Canadians to support the American Revolution.
4. Father Carroll became bishop in 1789.
5. Bishop Carroll became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1808 because he was already Bishop of Baltimore.
CHAPTER 78
1. The California missions were more than just churches.
2. The Indians were taught the art of industry at the missions.
3. Father Junipero Sierra built the California missions.
4. Father Junipero Sierra built nine missions.
5. The Indians, were deprived of civilization and employment when the Franciscan Friars left.
CHAPTER 79
1. The man called “Father of the American Navy” is John Barry.
2. Some Catholic military leaders that helped the Catholic colonists were Lafayette, Steuben, and Pulaski.
3. President George Washington thanked Catholics for their loyalty in the Revolution.
4. Famous Catholic leaders in the World War Marshal Foch, Father Duffy and General O’Ryan.
5. The percentages of Catholics in the mlitary: 35% in the army, 40% in the navy, and 50% in the marines.
CHAPTER 80
1. Napoleon was born on the Island of Corsica.
2. Napoleon quarreled with Pius VII because Napoleon’s brother wanted a divorce.
3. The wrongs that Napoleon did against the Pope were taking the Papal States, and taking the Pope hostage for excommunicating him from the Church.
4. Pope Pius VII was Pope from year 1800 to 1823.
5. Napoleon died on St Helena with the services of a priest.
CHAPTER 81
1. The Catholics in England and Ireland were persecuted by not being to learn or practice the Faith, fined when they did not attend Protestant services and they could not vote.
2. The Catholics received the right to vote in 1792.
3. Catholic were permitted to sell land in Ireland in 1771.
4. When Daniel O’Connell was elected for parliament the British closed their doors to him.
5. The Catholic Emancipation Bill was passed was April 13, 1829.
CHAPTER 82
1. The religion that John Henry Newman belonged to first was the Church of England.
2. The University that he taught at was Oriel College of Oxford University.
3. The year that Newman began to write pamphlets was 1833.
4. The result of his study in Catholic history was that he learned it was the True Church founded by Christ.
5. Newman became a Cardinal in the year 1879.
CHAPTER 83
1. The Catholic Church was persecuted from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries .
2. The Catholic Church was persecuted in England, Ireland, Germany and France.
3. Chateaubriand was a famous French Catholic of the 19th century.
4. Joseph von Gorres was a famous German Catholic of the 19th century.
5. The German Bishop von Kettler was the friend of all workingmen.
CHAPTER 84
1. At the close of the American Revolution there were 23,700 Catholics in the United States .
2. Catholics lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia.
3. There are over two million Catholics living in the United State today.
4. The three Councils of Baltimore were held in 1852, 1866, and in 1889.
5. The great work established by the First Council of Baltimore was a parochial school system of education..
CHAPTER 85
1.The famous cathedral that was begun by Archbishop Hughes was Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.
2. Archbishop Hughes became Bishop of New York in the year 1864.
3. The particular work that Bishop Hughes established in New York was the parochial Catholic school system.
4. Two groups of people that tried to destroy the Church were the Native Americans and people who called themselves the “Know-Nothings.”
5. Archbishop Hughes went to France during the Civil War because he wanted to secure the loyalty of the French to the Union.
CHAPTER 86
1. Three great Cardinals in the nineteenth century were Nicholas Wiseman, John Newman, and Henry Manning.
2. John Newman and Henry Manning were converts.
3. The year the Church appointed Bishops in England was 1850.
4. When the Bishops returned to England there were anti-Catholic demonstrations.
5. The Cardinal that was noted for his love for the poor was Cardinal Manning.
CHAPTER 87
1. In the beginning of the nineteenth century Italy was not a united kingdom.
2. Pope Pius IX was asked to become the leader of united Italy.
3. The city of Rome was seized on September 20, 1870.
4. The Law of Guarantees stated that the Church would receive a half a million dollars a year to make up for the land taken from her.
5. The Church refused to accept this law because the Pope refused to become a subject of the King of Italy.
CHAPTER 88
1. The Vatican Council was held in 1870.
2. It is called the Vatican Council because that is where the council was held.
3. The statement that the Pope is infallible means that he would be divinely protected from making mistakes whenever teaching His doctrines.
4. Our Lord promised his Church that the Spirit of Truth would always be with His Church to protect her from error.
5. Pope Pius IX presided over the Vatican Council.
CHAPTER 89
1. Germany became an empire in the nineteenth century.
2. Bismark interfered with the Church by arresting priests, closing Catholic schools, banishing religious orders and putting Protestants in charge of Church affairs.
3. Bismark banished the religious orders of the Jesuits, the Vincentians, the Redemptorists, the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart .
4. Windhorst was a great Catholic leader.
5. Bismark was not successful in his war against the Church.
CHAPTER 90
1. Bacteria are little living organisms or germs that can cause diseases.
2. Bacteria are harmful.
3. Louis Pasteur is famous because showed the way to conquer harmful bacteria.
4. Louis Pasteur lived in the nineteenth century.
5. Louis Pasteur was also a true Catholic besides a great scientist.
CHAPTER 91
1. Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette in Lourdes.
2. Mary first appeared to Saint Bernadette on February 7, 1858.
3. Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette eighteen times.
4. Our Lady called herself the Immaculate Conception.
5. Lourdes is famous because Mary appeared to a little peasant girl and miraculous cures which still occur.
CHAPTER 92'
1. The famous letter of Pope Leo XIII that was written in Latin was Rerum Novarum.
2. Rerum Novarum means Condition of Labor in English.
3. The Social Justice is insuring each person is given the right to work with just wages.
4. Pope Leo XIII demanded that men should be payed a living wage, women and children would not have to work long hours and that workers be allowed to form unions.
5. The liberals of the nineteenth century were guilty of making men, women ad children work long hours for low pay.
CHAPTER 93
1. Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914.
2. Pius X’s motto was To Restore all Things in Christ.
3. Pope Pius X’s allowed children to receive communion when they reached the age of reason .
4. France exiled nuns and priests in the time of Pius X.
5. Pius X is also famous for speaking up for the rights of Indians in Peru and arranging to have all the laws of the Church clearly stated in a single volume.
CHAPTER 94
1. Benedict XV became pope in 1914.
2. The Pope had to remain neutral in the World War because the Catholic Church as the universal Church has children in all of the warring nations .
3. The League of Nations praised Pope Benedict XV because of his fairness and for his charitableness.
4. Pope Benedict XV tried to stop the war by begging the nations to stop fighting.
5. Benedict XV was not invited to the Peace Conference at Versailles.
CHAPTER 95
1. The famous University that Cardinal Mercier taught at was the University of Louvain.
2. The city that Cardinal Mercier became the Archbishop of was Malines.
3. Malines Conversation between the Cardinal and Anglicans were meant to bring the Anglicans back into the bosom of the Catholic Church.
4. The people of Belgium loved Cardinal Mercier because he protested against the invasion of his country.
5. Cardinal Mercier died in the year 1926.
CHAPTER 96
1. The greatest title that any Catholic can posses is to be called a Saint.
2. Saint Teresa of Avila lived in the sixteenth century.
3. Saint Teresa of Lisieux lived from 1873-1897.
4. Saint Teresa of Lisieux is also known as Little Flower of Jesus.
5. Saint Teresa of Lisieux became holy by doing little things well and patiently enduring suffering.
CHAPTER 97
1. Pope Pius XI family name is Ratti.
2. Pius XI first labored as a priest in Milan.
3. Pius XI was a seminary teacher in Milan.
4. Pope Benedict XV sent Cardinal Ratti to the city of Warsaw in Poland..
5. Pius XI became pope in 1921.
CHAPTER 98
1. Vatican City is 160 acres of land.
2. Vatican City’s population is three hundred.
3. Vatican City began to exist on February 11, 1929.
4. The Pope must be independent of all earthly rulers because the Church should possess some land over which no temporal ruler has any power.
5. Pope Pius XI settled the Roman Question.
CHAPTER 99
1. Some liberties that we citizens of the United States have are: freedom of speech, freedom of press, etc.
2. Russian citizens do not possess freedoms *(during Communist era).
3. Russian workers are not allowed to go on strike.
4. Russian women are forced to work in Russian mines and factories.
5. Communism is an enemy of God and religion because Churches have been destroyed, priests and bishops have been murdered and worship is not allowed.
CHAPTER 100
1. The “Mystical Body of Christ” means the Catholic Church is a large family whose head is Christ.
2. When someone criticizes the Church we should make sure that the charge is proven.
3. The basis that any institution should be judged on its good or average qualities.
4. Four items which constituted the wealth of the Catholic Church:
a. Buildings erected for the glory of Almighty God
b . Buildings erected for the services of humanity
c. The great religious communities and orders, whose members devote their lives to God and to men
d. The voluntary donations and sacrifices of all individual Catholics.
5. Three reasons why we should always remain true to the Catholic Church are
a. We are remaining with the true government.
b . We shall contribute to civilization.
c. We shall stay true to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’