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How much do you know about the Catholic Church? Take our quiz!
CS Monitor ^ | November 2, 2013 | Laura Edwins, Contributor, Eoin O'Carroll, Staff

Posted on 11/04/2013 1:12:39 PM PST by NYer

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To: Salvation

The “key” was in the dates : - )


41 posted on 11/04/2013 4:47:07 PM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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To: NYer
I hate those tests. So tedious to work through.

56%

42 posted on 11/04/2013 4:49:11 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
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To: NYer
I hate those tests. So tedious to work through.

56%

43 posted on 11/04/2013 4:51:48 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
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To: NYer

Yes I’ve been to Rome but it’s been a LONG LONG time, and it was before I converted so I didn’t pay that much attention to, for example, the via della concilliazione.

I do remember almost falling victim to a gypsy child pickpocket on our way to the Vatican. :-(

Another memory I had was how ridiculously out of scale the tomb of Vittorio Emmanuele was.

The MOST ridiculous trick question IMHO was the one about what functions the Vatican could do as an independent nation - the answer was NONE, the HOLY SEE does them instead. How ridiculous.


44 posted on 11/04/2013 5:53:21 PM PST by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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45 posted on 11/04/2013 5:55:06 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: NYer

BTW for the record I got a 68%.

I missed stuff like - swiss guard requirements, tallest dome, smallest nation (thought san martino might be smaller), vatican diplomacy, longest pope.

Unlike most Novus Ordo Catholics I got the Immaculate Conception right though. :-)


46 posted on 11/04/2013 6:04:46 PM PST by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: united1000

One nun broke a ruler on me, she was mad because I had smirked, so she doubled up on two rulers and smacked me again. I never smirked after that!


47 posted on 11/04/2013 6:12:10 PM PST by coton_lover ("He who lives upon hope will die fasting." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: NYer

LOL, Me too!

Scored a 76%.


48 posted on 11/04/2013 6:40:22 PM PST by Jvette
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To: NYer

Almost finished 1st semester 3T : )


49 posted on 11/04/2013 8:07:26 PM PST by eastsider
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To: NYer

Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

Just average. Who knew Pittsburgh held so many relics? I mean, outside of those people who live in or near Pittsburgh, or who are far better Catholics than me, or better Christians, better historians, or better at trivia than me. I mean, besides those people.

“Saint Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburgh is home to a collection of 4,000 to 5,000 relics, including a tooth of the chapel’s patron, St. Anthony of Padua.”


50 posted on 11/05/2013 1:38:07 AM PST by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: vladimir998

I missed that one too. I remember reading that it was built bigger than St. Peter’s on purpose, so I went with that. I’m not sure how it helps the Ivory Coast with all the other problems there, but there you go, a beautifully big dome.


51 posted on 11/05/2013 1:46:56 AM PST by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: NYer

80% for me. I got all the doctrinal questions right, but didn’t know some of the geographical trivia.

Regards,


52 posted on 11/05/2013 4:46:27 AM PST by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: narses

From the Christian Science Monitor??? Okay, I’ll bite, but I know I’m not gonna’ like what I find...

Yup, sure enough, they just had to throw in the pedophile angle:

24. The 2004 John Jay report found that, between 1950 and 2002, about what percentage of priests in the United States had a sexual experience with a minor?

0.01 percent
0.1 percent
4 percent
40 percent

Sheesh! Yup, I knew it. They couldn’t pass up the opportunity to slam the Catholic Church!

I wonder how many editors on the Christian Science Monitor’s staff are pedophiles?

10 percent?
40 percent?
60 percent?
100 percent?

....


53 posted on 11/05/2013 8:23:22 AM PST by DoctorBulldog (I can't be a racist because, I can't stand Biden and Pelosi, either!)
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To: DoctorBulldog

That’s what I checked too. We were right!


54 posted on 11/05/2013 8:26:11 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: jtal; NYer

Yup, I missed some of those, too. I got the smallest nation and the Vatican diplomacy questions right, though.

I ended up with 19 correct, 6 wrong. Giving me a score of 76 percent. I guess I suck as a Catholic.

But, I think the REAL reason the Christian Science Monitor decided to do the quiz was so they could slam Catholics with question number 24!:

....

24. The 2004 John Jay report found that, between 1950 and 2002, about what percentage of priests in the United States had a sexual experience with a minor?

....

Am I right, or am I right?

Cheers!


55 posted on 11/05/2013 8:32:15 AM PST by DoctorBulldog (I can't be a racist because, I can't stand Biden and Pelosi, either!)
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To: Salvation

Yup. A leopard can’t change its spots, nor can a Liberal rag like the Christian Science Monitor forgo slamming Catholics.

Cheers!


56 posted on 11/05/2013 8:35:16 AM PST by DoctorBulldog (I can't be a racist because, I can't stand Biden and Pelosi, either!)
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To: DoctorBulldog

Right, because when you think Catholic Church, you’re thinkin’ paedophilia. So nice of the CSM to remind us.

(BTW I missed that one too - I thought 4% sounded high. My guess was 1% I think. But of course the popular perception is that they all are guilty.)


57 posted on 11/05/2013 10:52:34 AM PST by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: DoctorBulldog
But, I think the REAL reason the Christian Science Monitor decided to do the quiz was so they could slam Catholics with question number 24!:

That was my initial thought but on greater reflection, given the low percentage, I think they factored it in because the majority of non-catholics presume it to be much greater.

58 posted on 11/05/2013 11:48:00 AM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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