Christian and Catholic Christians sided against slavery because of God-given dignity to humans.

When the Civil War ended ___________ for people of all races and creeds was proclaimed

_________ is a council attended by all the bishops of a specific country or region.

In 1884 a Nationwide Catholic School System was established. The goal was to have every Catholic ____ in Catholic school

In 1914_______pleads for peace throughout World War I

In an attempt to secure rights for the Church, ________ negotiated the Lateran Treaty with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He also negotiated with Hitler on behalf of the German church

One of the outcomes of the Vatican II Council were

The Second Vatican Council was convened (started) in 1962 by ____

The pope who led the Church through the horrors of World War II was ____.

America’s ____ was appointed archbishop for the military of the United States by Pope Pius XII.

In 1931, forty years after Pope Leo XIII issued his social justice encyclical Rerum Novarum, ____ issued the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno or “After Forty Years.”

Catholic priests served as __________ and accompanied troops into battle.

German dictator Adolf Hitler silenced and arrested Catholic priests and others who spoke out against Hitler’s vicious persecution of Germany’s _________

In 1960 the people of the United States elected their first Catholic president, ____.

In the years after World War II much of Europe lay in ruin. A new barrier referred to as the __________ divided the continent

On October 11, 1962 the Second Vatican Council in Rome gathered 2500 bishops. It was the first ________council of the Church

In 1908, after reaching a population of ____________ Catholics the US was declared as not being a mission country