Have you heard this one, my friends?
God tells one of his angels, “Do you know what I have just done? I have just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and darkness on Earth. Isn’t that good?” The angel replies, “Yes, but what will you do now?” God says, “I think I’ll call it a day.”
-H.C. Harold
1) Scripture
The Old Testament and Gospel readings from 2 Kings and Luke for Sunday, Oct. 13 both involve what type of person?
- a) tax collectors
- b) people with leprosy
- c) shepherds
- d) widows
Fresco in the Vatican Museums’ Hall of Maps depicting the Battle of Lepanto
2) Catholic Sacramentals
The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is Oct. 7. Pope Pius V created the feast, once known as Our Lady of Victory, to celebrate the 1571 victory of what?
- a) Christians over the Turks
- b) Pope Pius V over his rival pope
- c) The Vatican over Italian factions
- d) Traditionalists over Reformationists
3) More Catholic Sacramentals
Speaking of the rosary, what is the name for a string of medieval prayer beads used by Catholics that preceded the creation of the rosary?
- a) komboloi
- b) lestovka
- c) chotki
- d) paternoster
4) Catholic Hawaii
This mission church on Kauai is also a common name given to boys. While there are several saints with this name, parish history says that the Hanalei church was so dubbed because three men with the same first name had volunteered to help rebuild the church in the 1930s.
- a) St. Anthony
- b) St. William
- c) St. Luke
- d) St. George
5) Vatican
An upcoming Synod of Bishops at the Vatican will focus on what region of the world?
- a) China
- b) Eastern Europe
- c) the Amazon
- d) Germany
6) More Catholic Hawaii
Which Catholic community just got a new space to worship at a former Episcopalian church that is now a part of Holy Family Parish?
- a) the Newman Center
- b) the Korean Catholic Community
- c) the Vietnamese Catholic Community
- d) the Knights of Columbus
7) Clergy
Which of the following is not true about the requirements to be a Catholic cardinal?
- a) A cardinal must be a Catholic.
- b) A cardinal must be a bishop.
- c) A cardinal must be older than 25.
- d) A cardinal is selected by the pope.
Answers: 1) b, 2) a, 3) d, 4) b, 5) c, 6) b, 7) b.