The Enlightenment and the Catholic Church

The Enlightenment deemphasized the focus on human achievement sparked by the Renaissance, and a placed greater reliance on the organization of the Church in society.

• True

• False

The Church opposed the latest philosophies and scientific theories of the era because they all eliminated the need for God.

• True

• False

Because the Catholic Church has embraced some of the liberal ideology, it is one of the most outspoken defenders of human rights and human freedoms today.

• True

• False

The First Vatican Council sought to diminish the authority and power of the papacy.

• True

• False

During the French Revolution the clergy were required to take an oath promising to obey the revolutionary government rather than the pope.

• True

• False

Vatican City is the last vestige of the Papal States.

• True

• False

The anticlerical mentality sparked by the French Revolution was fortunately contained to France.

• True

• False

Many of the scientists of the era were Catholic priests.

• True

• False

The seeming opposition between faith and science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was more a propaganda promoted by Enlightenment thinkers to bolster their own position and identity.

• True

• False

Many of the liberals of the nineteenth century were atheistic and violently antireligious.

• True

• False