Aloha all,
It’s a new school year, so this quiz is going to be all about the new too. Let’s see if you can get straight As.
-H.C. Harold
[forminator_quiz id=”30038″]
1) New name
The Office of Religious Education recently changed its name. What is it now called?
- a) Office of Faith Formation
- b) Office of Religious Learning
- c) RCIA Office
- d) Office of Erudite Instruction
2) New church
Which Oahu parish is getting a new church?
- a) Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ewa Beach
- b) St. Jude in Kapolei
- c) St. Malia in Koolina
- d) St. Stephen in Nuuanu
3) New league
Catholic Athletes for Christ held a new vote for a Catholic baseball all-star team. Who of the following did not make the cut?
- a) Sandy Koufax
- b) Yogi Berra
- c) Derek Jeter
- d) Babe Ruth
4) New pope
To some Vatican watchers, a pope’s visit to the Italian city of L’Aquila is a potential signal of his upcoming resignation. Why is the city significant?
- a) It’s the burial place of St. Celestine V, who formalized the process for a pope to resign.
- b) It’s where apocryphal Gospels have said Jesus will return.
- c) It’s a ski town, and skeptics think a pope’s resigning is a slippery slope to the downfall of the pontificate.
- d) It used to be where the pope lived before Vatican City.
Bishop Robert E. Barron, formerly a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop and founder of the Catholic media apostolate Word on Fire, is seen at his installation Mass as a new bishop to his second diocese. (CNS photo/Clare LoCoco, courtesy Word on Fire Catholic Ministries)
5) New word test
What is a new convert to Catholicism sometimes called?
- a) Neophyte
- b) Baby Catholic
- c) Neoclature
- d) Tyrocatechist
6) New Bible
The most recent revision of the New American Bible, approved by the U.S. bishops, was completed in what year?
- a) 2011
- b) 1986
- c) 1977
- d) 2001
7) New bishop
Bishop Robert Barron, who is known for his Word on Fire ministries and documentaries like the “Catholicism” series, was installed on July 29 as the new bishop of what diocese?
- a) The Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota
- b) The Diocese of Santa Barbara in California
- c) The Archdiocese of Chicago
- d) The Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota
Answers: 1) a, 2) a, 3) a, 4) a, 5) a, 6) a, 7) a