9D 2nd Trim

Who paved the way for the birth of Christendom?

• Pepin

• Charlemagne

• Constantine

• Theodosius

Why did lay investiture lead to many problems in the Church?

• Kings appointed unfit and unholy people as bishops and abbots.

  
  

• Popes became too dependent on the protection of kings. 

• Bishops became princes by having estates. 

• The clergy became too political. 

Who among the following Lasallians lives the ora et labora of the Benedictine Rule? 

• Marti serves others by explaining patiently the tasks. 

            

• Ronel prays so that his actions will be guided by God.

•  El organizes forum which will foster the camaraderie.

           

•  Rose preaches the Gospel through the social media. 

Which of the following refers to the conferral of positions in the Church by some officials to their relatives?

• Nepotism

• Lay Investiture

• Nicolaitism

• Simony

How did the Cluniac Reform help the Church?  

• The abbots led the community to academic excellence.

           

•  The community centered their lives around the monastery. 

       

•  The popes found refuge in the town of Cluny. 

• The monks voted for their own abbots.

Feudalism led to the abuses within the Church. One of which is simony wherein the clergy kept concubines.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Christendom is the unity of Europe as a commonwealth of Christian people, a single society composed of different people united by one common faith, moral, and intellectual culture. 

• True

• False

The mendicant orders sought to live monastic ideals of self-renunciation, poverty, and self-sacrifice while in the world in order to convert it by example and preaching as they engaged themselves with the society.

• True

• False

The Cluniac reform set a model of choosing Church leaders when monks opted to vote their own abbots.

• True

• False

The Church is perfect. It does not need renewal and reform.

• Ture

• False