Catholic Test 3

Questions:

1) Is one excommunicated for being involved or having an abortion? (T or F)

2) Is it a mortal sin to use artificial birth control? [T or F)

3) What is the name of the first Ecumenical Council?

4) Which one of these proves Jesus was the Messiah:
a) His birth
b) Crucifixion
c) The Resurrection?

5) What feast celebrates Mary's meeting with her cousin Elizabeth?

6) Which commandment requires us to respect life in all its stages?
a) The fifth
b) The sixth
c) The seventh

7) Religious statues, medals and holy water are examples of?
a) Relics
b) Rites
c) Sacramentals

8) Michael the archangel announced the birth of Jesus to Mary? (T or F)

9) Who built the first temple or house of prayer in Jerusalem?
a) Samuel
b) David
c) Solomon

10) Which pope wrote Humanae Vitae?

Answers:

1) True - Canon 1398 of the Code of Canon Law: "a person who procures a completed abortion incurs an automatic excommunication"

2) True - Humanae Vitae and CCC 2370; 2399

3) Council of Nicaea - 325 AD

4) The Resurrection - Jesus' birth and death on the cross would become meaningless if He did not rise from the dead.

5) Visitation - (Lk 1:39-45) The feast is on May 31

6) The fifth commandment (“Thou Shall Not Kill”) "'Do not slay the innocent and the righteous.'(Ex 23:7) The deliberate murder of an innocent person is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human being, to the golden rule, and to the holiness of the Creator. The law forbidding it is universally valid: it obliges each and everyone, always and everywhere." CCC 2261

7) Sacramentals - A rite, an act, or a sacred object blessed by the Church.

8) False - It was the archangel Gabriel (Luke1:26)

9) Solomon - (2 Kings 24:13), (1 Chronicles 28:11), (2 Chronicles 2:1)

10) Pope Paul VI