8th Grade Chapter 17 We Live Our Faith

What is the secret meeting in which the cardinals elect a new pope called?

• conclave

• reconciliation

• relativism

• monasticism

Everywhere Pope John Paul II went, he proclaimed the Church's mission of ________________.

• conclave

• reconciliation

• relativism

• monasticism

What is the viewpoint that concepts such as right and wrong and truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation?

• conclave

• reconciliation

• relativism

• monasticism

In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, or "The Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul II wrote powerfully about the sacredness of all evangelists.

• True

• False

In 1986 Pope John Paul II appointed a commission of twelve cardinals and bishops to preside over the writing of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.

• True

• False

In 1967 Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical called Populorum Progressio, or "On the Development of Peoples."

• True

• False

In April 2005 Pope John Paul II died; his successor, Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, took as his name Pius XVI.

• True

• False

Pope John Paul II's 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens ("Through Work") and his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Anno ("Hundredth Year") were issued to honor anniversaries of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

• True

• False

At his election in 1978, Pope John Paul II became the first non-Polish pope since the 16th century.

• True

• False

Pope __________ had one of the shortest reigns in Church history: only 33 days.

• Benedict XVI

• John Paul I

• John Paul II

• Paul VI