Starting at the top of the organisation: all Catholics have to acknowledge the authority of the Pope. When a new pope is elected into office, which of the following is NOT a true detail of the process?
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All the Cardinals in the electoral college go into conclave in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican until they have reached a decision
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The outside world only knows this has been achieved when white smoke is seen coming from the chimney, indicating that the ballot papers have served their purpose and have now been destroyed, and the presiding Cardinal declares 'Habemus Papam' ('We have a Pope')
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No new Pope can be declared unless elected on a majority of at least 3/4
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The voting-papers are collected in the same vessels as are used for Mass
Q.2.
The Church hopes that its members will abide by common values and practices ~ by consent, through faith and on their merits ~ but occasionally someone will stumble and fall foul of The System. Only in the most extreme cases will The Church conclude it has no option than unilaterally to withdraw from its relationship with such a person ... not a step it would wish (nor be seen) to take lightly. What is this extreme sanction called?
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Inquisition
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Excommunication
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Incommunication
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Purgatory
Q.3.
Authority, conformity and obedience loom large in such an organisation as the Catholic Church: where does the Church hold that 'the rot set in'?
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All humans are bound to sin sooner or later, because we are descended from the fallible Adam and Eve, and give in to temptation to make wrong choices
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It was ultimately God's own fault for exercising His omnipotence and creating beings inferior to Himself, who by definition could not be perfect and therefore would each eventually commit sins
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The Devil is entirely to blame
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Sin is in our DNA which is evolving all the time
Q.4.
... So is it wrong for Catholics to consider, let alone potentially accept, evolution as an explanation for the origin of the world as we more or less know it?
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Yes: the Church in its wisdom has always known better than scientists
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Probably, because evolutionary theory emphasises the mechanical aspects of earthly existence, leaving little or no space for the mystery of God
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No, provided there is acceptance of divine design and purpose behind creation ~ rather than assuming it to have been a random sequence of developments
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Yes: Catholics are required to accept creation as a bulwark of established traditional faith, not least because God was there but humans weren't (at least until a few days in)
Q.5.
In the Catholic view of the world, only God ultimately has the right and capability to bestow or extinguish life: the Ten Commandments enjoin us never to commit murder, and the origins of life (conception and birth) are subject to His wisdom, bounty and mysteries ~ through the cooperation of humans within the sacramental framework of monogamous heterosexual marriage. Which of the following is/are regarded as acceptable practices?
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Contraception, to limit the number and timing of children and thus potentially care for each one better ('family planning')
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Abortion (the termination of a pregnancy on any grounds, such as medical certainty that the life would be short / handicapped ~ or deeply compromised in some other such way)
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Euthanasia: letting a terminally-ill person 'depart in peace' (at the risk of subverting an otherwise sound Biblical phrase) rather than actively prolonging their discomfort / indignity
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(None of the above is acceptable to Catholics)
Q.6.
Belief in Jesus is plainly pivotal for Catholics within the overall Christian church. Down the centuries there have been any number of 'heresies' ~ unhelpful, unproven side-issues that the Church has rejected. Which ONE of the following is not (if we may use such a phrase) a genuine heresy?
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For about the first quarter (500 years) of the Christian era, the Gnostics believed that a system of hidden wisdom was essential alongside the revelation of God through Scripture and the person of Jesus
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According to the Phlogiston Theory, not even God Himself could make Jesus both fully divine and yet fully human at the same time
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Docetics accepted most of the remarkable teaching and precepts of Jesus ~ but refuted His divinity, claiming He could not 'be God' in any form (even while God remains omnipotent, presumably) because human existence would have soiled Him
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The Arians (around 300 AD) interpreted Jesus as being special, inspired etc. but ultimately not in any sense on an equal level with God Himself, since there 'could not be two Gods'. It was to refute this that Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, convened the Council of Nicaea which in due course formulated the Nicene Creed ~ including the clear pronouncement that Jesus is 'one in being with the Father'
Q.7.
Within its creeds and doctrines, who and what does the Catholic Church actively believe Jesus was, and is? ONE of the following is significantly incomplete or otherwise wide of the mark: which one?
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He was and is the one true Redeemer and Saviour of fallen humankind
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He was the son of Mary
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He is the supreme exemplar of God's Love to humankind, through his deeds and teachings
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As God made man, He was uniquely placed to show and explain the principle of the Trinity: the creator Father, the Son (Himself) and the Spirit who would continue and empower His work after the Ascension
Q.8.
We can choose to see evidence of the creator God around us, in such things as the natural world with its diversity and rhythms; we can choose to accept the remarkable feats of 'the historical Jesus', and the influence and consequences of the Holy Spirit in action; a few of us might in God's wisdom be vouchsafed a vision (of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in most apparent cases). But your typical Catholic will seek to draw closest to God through a range of sacraments ~ what we might dub 'special religious observances', over and above the ordinary everyday actions of our human life. ONE of the following is NOT officially such a sacrament: which one?
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The Holy Eucharist (at Mass)
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Prayer
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Penance (confession, absolution and contrite good-works)
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Confirmation
Q.9.
Here are some key Catholic doctrines that most other Christians do NOT adhere to ... except which ONE?
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Conversion
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Purgatory
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Transubstantiation
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The Assumption (of Mary)
Q.10.
As and when the world (as we broadly know it) comes to an end at the Second Coming of Christ in Judgment, Catholics believe a number of things will happen. To call these 'spiritual loose-ends' seems somehow woeful, but in a sense it's valid. Be that as it may, which of the following is NOT then officially expected?
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Jews will have been fully reconciled to God through Jesus as Messiah, and Gentiles (non-Jews) will also come into the Church
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There will be an unprecedented battle ~ Armageddon ~ in which Christ will triumph over His opponent (the Antichrist) who has made one last false but powerful bid to lead humankind astray
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The bodies of those whose souls are already in heaven, or even in purgatory, will be raised to glory while the un-saved will miss out
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God's chosen people will already have been taken up to heaven in what is termed The Rapture
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