ASC 10 Religion - History of the Australian Catholic Church

The first Catholics to come to Australia were

• Mostly English convicts

• Mostly Irish convicts

• Mostly English settlers

• Mostly Irish settlers

The three phases in the history of the Australian Catholic Church are:

• Beginnings, developing structure, planning for the future

• Beginnings, populating the continent, responding to Vatican II

• Survival, creating churches, building schools

• Survival, creating and maintaining structures, responding to change

The first official Catholic mass was celebrated by

• Father William Ullathorne

• Father James Dixon

• Father John Therry

• Father Philip Conolly

Which priest opened the first Catholic School and lobbied for the first Catholic Church to be built?

• Father John Therry

• Mother Mary Mackillop

• Bishop John Bede Polding

• Father James Dixon

Mother Mary Mackillop founded which order?

• Sisters of Perpetual Help

• Sisters of St Joseph

• Sisters of St Dominic

• Sisters of St Catherine of Sienna

The first Catholic Australian Prime Minister was elected in 1929. What was his name?

• Robert Menzies

• Ben Chifley

• James Scullin

• Edmund Barton

The Education Act 1872 changed funding for schools in Australia by doing what?

• Stopping funding to larger and city based Catholic Schools

• Increasing funding to Catholic Schools in line with student numbers

• Stopping funding to all non Government schools including Catholic Schools

• Increasing funding to all schools including Catholic schools

The earliest religious orders in The Diocese of Maitland were

• Jesuits, Marist Brothers, Benedictines

• De La Salle Brothers, Patrician Brothers, Marist Brothers

• Sisters of St Joseph, Sisters of Charity, Ursulines

• Dominican Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St Joseph

Pope John XXIII announced an Ecumenical Council in 1959. The council was to become known as Vatican II. Why was the council called?

• To comply with rules - Church documents demand a council be called every 100 years

• To help people cope after World War II

• To ensure that people did not leave the church

• To overhaul the church and bring it into the modern era

How many documents were released by the Second Vatican Council?

• 6

• 16

• 10

• 100