Would you like to take my Catholicism True/False quiz?

Question

10 points for the first person who gets them all correct.

True or False?

1. According to Catholic doctrine, everything the Pope says is true.

2. The Catholic Church teaches that we can get into Heaven by doing good works.

3. Only Roman Catholics may receive Communion at Mass -- no exceptions.

4. Unless a Catholic married couple have lots of children, their marriage is invalid.

5. An annulment is really a "Catholic divorce." Only the terms are different.

6. The Pope can change Church doctrine.

7. The Catholic Church used to teach that Limbo exists, but doesn't teach this anymore.

8. Only unmarried men may receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

Answer 1

At the risk of embarrassing myself, I am going to say that all of these are false.

1. Only when speaking ex cathedra on issues of faith and morality

2. Salvation is by the grace of God

3. Orthodox Christians can receive communion at Mass. Also other Catholics can.

4. False

5. An annulment is a declaration that a sacramental marriage was never present

6. He can only declare new doctrine

7. Never a teaching of the Catholic Church. Merely a theological theory.

8. Married men may become deacons.

Answer 2

1. According to Catholic doctrine, everything the Pope says is true.

False, only when he speaks in ex cathedra (in matters of faith and morals) is he infallible.

2. The Catholic Church teaches that we can get into Heaven by doing good works.

Faith+Good works (more than giving on the collection plate).

3. Only Roman Catholics may receive Communion at Mass -- no exceptions.

False, if I'm not mistaken if grave circumstance allows it, then a non Catholic may receive Communion.

4. Unless a Catholic married couple have lots of children, their marriage is invalid.

False.

5. An annulment is really a "Catholic divorce." Only the terms are different.

False.

6. The Pope can change Church doctrine.

False

7. The Catholic Church used to teach that Limbo exists, but doesn't teach this anymore.

False

8. Only unmarried men may receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

False, a widowed man may be ordained to the priesthood or a married man to the permanent diaconate.

Answer 3

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 are false.

Not sure how to answer 6. I guess it depends on your definition of "change" and "doctrine". Sorry if I sound like Bill Clinton.

I will say 7 is true. The whole Limbo thing is more than a little weird. The church never had an official stance on what happened to those unbaptized. Limbo was a theory which basically said "we are not sure, it is up to God".

Answer 4

1) False
2) False
3) False
4) False
5) False - more than the terms are different
6) True - the Pope can make additions to canon law, for example, thus changing Church doctrine
7) False - belief in limbo is now optional
8) True, because a man whose wife has died is unmarried

P.S. I missed number 8 - I forgot deaconization was considerd receiving holy orders.

Answer 5

1. False
2. False (good works plus faith in Jesus)
3. True
4. False
5. False (an annulment means the marriage was never valid)
6. True (in theory) but highly unlikely.
7. True
8. False.

Answer 6

1. True, "To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral principles,...and to make judgement on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls".
"To fulfill this service, Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility....The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility..."
2. False, "By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has "opened" heaven to us....He makes partners..who have believed in him and remained faithful to his will."
3. True - I had a Monsigneur tell me that they only accept Catholics for Communion (I couldn't find it in the book)
4. False - "Spouses to whom God has not granted children can nevertheless have a conjugal life full of meaning, in both human and Christian terms."
5.True "Who ever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her.....if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." - the Chruch maintains that a new union cannot be recognized as valid.
6.True - "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ,...has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."
7.False - "All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified,..undergo purifcation...The Church gives the name Purgatory to the final purification of the elect,"
8. False - "Since the Second Vatican Council the Latin Church has restored the diaconate....which can be conferred on married men,"

Answer 7

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. True

How did I do? I am a reformed Catholic.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

1 - True

2 - False

3 - True

4 - True

5 - True (kinda, a divorce at least acknowledges the marriage occurred in the first place)

6 - True

7 - True

8 - True

Answer 10

1. false

2. false - faith plus works

3. false - some of the Orthodox religions may receive as well.

4. false

5. false

6. false

7. false

8. false