Teachings of the Catholic Church Name_________________________

THEO 1300 Th 7-9:30pm

Fr Samuel Medley, SOLT Midterm Exam October 15, 2009

What are the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

1. _______________ 2. ______________ 3. _______________ 4.

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5. Give one reason of Blessed Pope John XXIII for the Second Vatican
Council.

6. What is one thing Jesus teaches us about prayer?

Name the three means of that the Word of God is transmitted faithfully in
the Church so that it can be said of them that one “cannot stand without
the others”?

7. ____________________ 8. ____________________ 9. ___________________

10. What is the soul of Sacred Theology? _____________________

The Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of our faith. What are the
three parts of the dogma of the Trinity?

11. ____________________ 12. ____________________ 13. ___________________

14. Name one of the dogmas of faith on creation.

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15. Name a truth of the faith about angels.

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16. What is the name of the dogma that describes man’s first sin?
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17. What term describes the union of two natures in Christ?

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18. What is the name of the Dogma of Our Lady that explains that Our
Lady is free

from all stain of sin from the moment of her conception.

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19. Give one of the titles of the Holy Spirit.
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20. Give one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit.

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21. Name one Old Testament symbol of the Church.

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22. Which word best describes the mystery Church?

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Name the 4 marks of the Church

23. ______________ 24. _____________ 25. ______________ 26.

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Name the 3 states of life found in the Church.

27. ____________________ 28. ____________________ 29. ___________________

Name the Seven Sacraments:

30. ____________________ 31. ____________________ 32. ____________________

Sacraments of Initiation
34. ____________________ 35. ________________________
Sacraments of Healing

36. ____________________ 37. ________________________

Sacraments of Service

Name the three Sacraments that confer a sacred character, or indelible

mark:
37. ___________________ 37. ____________________ 38.
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39. What does it mean to say that the Sacraments work “ex opere
operato”?
40. Name the term used by the Council of Trent from St Thomas
Aquainas that is used to describe the change in substance in the
Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Name the four essential elements of the Sacrament of Penance:

On the part of the Penitent 41. _____________ 42. _____________ 42.
_____________
On the part of the Priest 44. _____________

For the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick:

45. Who is the minister of this sacrament? ____________________

46. Who is the recipient? ____________________

Name the three degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders

47. _________________ 48. _________________ 49. ___________________

50. What is the essential act of Matrimony that makes up the substance of this
Sacrament?

What are the three gifts of God to man in creating him in his image and
likeness?
51. __________________ 52. __________________ 53. __________________

What are the three conditions of mortal sin?

54. __________________ 55. __________________ 56. __________________

57. Name the central mystery of our faith, upon which Communion in
society, politics, and economics are all ultimately based.

58. What is written and engraved in the soul of each and every man,
human reason ordaining him to do good and forbidding him to sin?

Give two effects of the grace of justification in our baptism:

59. __________________________ 60. ____________________________

Name the ten commandments in the order that God gave them:
61. ________________________________ 62. ________________________________
63. ________________________________ 64. ________________________________
65. ________________________________ 66. ________________________________
67. ________________________________ 68. ________________________________
69. ________________________________ 70. ________________________________

71. Why do Catholics use graven images in worshiping God when the
first commandment clearly states, “you shall not make for yourself a
graven image”?

72. Name a sin against taking the Lord’s Name in vain.

73. What is the supreme way of hallowing the Lord’s Day?

74. What is the basic unit of society that reveals to us the Trinitarian
mystery?

75. Name a sin against life.

76. Name a sin against purity.

77. Name a sin against truth.

Name the three kinds of concupiscence:

78. ____________________ 79. ____________________ 80. ____________________