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Do you know what kind of car Jesus drives? A Christler!
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H.C. Harold
1) Catholic Hawaii
This Oahu school, with a start date this year of July 29, has the earliest back-to-school date for a preschool to eighth grade Hawaii Catholic school. Hint: Students wear green uniform shirts.
- a) St. Anthony, Kailua
- b) St. George, Waimanalo
- c) St. Ann, Kaneohe
- d) St. John Vianney, Kailua
2) Catholic A to Z
Although not used much today, the galero is a large brim hat traditionally worn by clergy. After cardinals pass away, their galeros are sometimes hung inside their cathedrals. What accessory on the galero indicated the rank of the person wearing the hat?
- a) Crosses
- b) Tassels
- c) Feathers
- d) Ribbons
3) Popes
Aug. 21 is the memorial of this early 20th-century pope, after whom there is a namesake parish in Manoa. His birth name was Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto and he was known for being a more down-to-earth pontiff who also lowered the age that children could receive the Eucharist.
- a) John XXIII
- b) Pius XI
- c) Pius X
- d) Benedict XV
4) Scripture
The first reading for Sunday, Aug. 18, sees which prophet sent down into a muddy cistern because Jerusalem’s princes did not like what he was prophesying?
- a) Jeremiah
- b) Hezekiah
- c) Isaiah
- d) Ezekiel
5) Catholic Hawaii
This Maui parish burned down after arson in 1977, was rebuilt in 1980 and has a bronze Father Damien statue by artist Jean Charlot, pictured.
- a) St. Anthony, Wailuku
- b) Our Lady Queen of Angels, Kula
- c) Maria Lanakila, Lahaina
- d) St. Ann, Waihee
6) Saints
Famous Baroque sculptor Bernini was known to have regularly done what Catholic spiritual practice?
- a) Centering Prayer
- b) the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
- c) Lectio Divina
- d) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
7) A to Z Catholic Dictionary
The study of moral obligation is called what?
- a) Doxology
- b) Eschatology
- c) Hamartiology
- d) Deontology
Answers: 1) d, 2) b, 3) c, 4) a, 5) a, 6) b, 7) d