CSF February 2023: Catholic quiz

How well do you know the Catholic Faith?

The Ultimate Catholic Quiz by Catholic Answers’ founder, Karl Keating.

Excerpted with permission and available for purchase from https://ignatius.com/the-ultimate-catholic-quiz-ucqp/

There are no trick questions, but there are questions that will trip you up if you fail to read carefully. An answer is counted as wrong if any part of it – such as a date or name – is wrong. Your goal is not to find the answer that is least wrong, but the one answer that is wholly right, which may be “none of the above.” On average, most informed Catholics score 50%. How well did you do?

1. Holy Communion may be received by

a. anyone at all, so long as his conscience tells him it is the right thing to do.

b. any Christian who wishes to manifest the unity that Christ willed for His Church.

c. Catholics in the state of grace, but not by most Protestants, even if they are in the state of grace.

d. Catholics who have committed mortal sins and are sorry for them, even if they have not confessed them yet in confession.

e. none of the above.

2. Creation means

a. God made everything out of nothing.

b. God made everything out of unformed plasmatic matter.

c. God made everything out of empty space.

d. God set the universe in motion and then withdrew.

e. none of the above.

3. Ecumenical councils

a. are always held at the Vatican.

b. have their acts ratified by the Pope—that’s what makes them ecumenical.

c. are invalid unless attended by an absolute majority of the world’s bishops.

d. Have been held 16 times, the latest being Vatican II.

e. none of the above.

4. The Bible is divinely inspired, which means

a. the sacred writers had visions and wrote down what they saw.

b. the sacred writers were given extraordinary literary skills by God, and this is why the Bible is so beautifully written.

c. God moved the sacred writers so that they wrote only and whatever He wanted them to write.

d. the Bible is the most inspiring book in the world.

e. none of the above

5. Persons with same-sex attraction

a. will go to hell unless they become heterosexuals first.

b. are not responsible for their condition, so homosexual acts are not sinful for them.

c. cannot be baptized.

d. are under the same obligation of chastity as are unmarried heterosexuals.

e. none of the above.