1. Canon Law

Which of these terms does not refer to an area dealt with by the Office of Tribunal and Canonical Affairs?

• a) convalidation
• b) annulment
• c) radical sanation
• d) The office handles all of the above.

2. Religious Orders

Male and female religious congregations that wear sandals instead of shoes are called what (after the Latin term for “without shoes”)?

• a) Cloistered
• b) Third Order
• c) Discalced
• d) Cistercian

3. Current Events

In an Aug. 8 letter to U.S. bishops, the chairman of the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship announced the new Vatican instruction that the word “Yahweh” is no longer to be used in prayer or song during Catholic Masses. Why?

• a) According to Christian/Jewish tradition, this Hebrew term is God’s proper name and shouldn't be spoken.
• b) People often mispronounced it.
• c) The Vatican prefers Adonai because it starts with A, which begins the Latin alphabet.
• d) New scriptural research shows Yahweh has a different meaning than originally thought.

4. Saints

St. Rose of Lima (feast day: Aug. 23) is the patroness of the Americas and the Philippines and has the distinction of being the first what?

• a) woman saint
• b) saint with children and grandchildren
• c) person to found a women’s religious order in South America
• d) saint canonized in the Western Hemisphere

5. Picture

The two cloth flaps on the back of a miter (seen above) are called what?

• a) lappets
• b) fascia
• c) grecas
• d) flaps (of course)

6. Scripture

Who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of the twelve Apostles?

• a) James the Lesser
• b) Matthias
• c) Paul
• d) Barnabas

7. Church in Hawaii

All of the six main Hawaiian islands currently have a church or mission named Sacred Heart(s) except which island?

• a) Lanai
• b) Oahu
• c) Molokai
• d) Maui

8. Catholics Around the World

Last fall, inaccurate rumors circulated that these had been banned in the Olympic Village during the Summer 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

• a) rosaries
• b) Vatican flags
• c) bibles
• d) prayer groups

9. Church Trivia

Of the following famous people, who was not Catholic?

• a) Joe DiMaggio
• b) Florence Nightingale
• c) Alfred Hitchcock
• d) Josephine Baker

10. Hawaii’s Beatified

Blessed Damien was assisted on Molokai by Brother Joseph Dutton, an American who arrived in Molokai in 1886 and stayed for 45 years until his death in 1931. What religious order did Brother Dutton belong to?

• a) Sacred Hearts
• b) Trappist
• c) He was a priest for the Sandwich Islands.
• d) He was a layman given the name “Brother” by Damien.

Answers: 1) d, 2) c, 3) a, 4) d, 5) b, 6) a, 7) c, 8) c, 9) b, 10) d