Posted on 11/04/2013 1:12:39 PM PST by NYer
Thousands of people attending the installment Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican in 2005. (Gregorio Borgia/AP/File)
Can you tell your aspergillum from your alb? Your cassock from your chasuble? Take our quiz on all things Roman Catholic to test your knowledge of one of the world's oldest, largest, and most powerful institutions.
Average reader score = 51%
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
The “key” was in the dates : - )
56%
56%
Yes I’ve been to Rome but it’s been a LONG LONG time, and it was before I converted so I didn’t pay that much attention to, for example, the via della concilliazione.
I do remember almost falling victim to a gypsy child pickpocket on our way to the Vatican. :-(
Another memory I had was how ridiculously out of scale the tomb of Vittorio Emmanuele was.
The MOST ridiculous trick question IMHO was the one about what functions the Vatican could do as an independent nation - the answer was NONE, the HOLY SEE does them instead. How ridiculous.
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BTW for the record I got a 68%.
I missed stuff like - swiss guard requirements, tallest dome, smallest nation (thought san martino might be smaller), vatican diplomacy, longest pope.
Unlike most Novus Ordo Catholics I got the Immaculate Conception right though. :-)
One nun broke a ruler on me, she was mad because I had smirked, so she doubled up on two rulers and smacked me again. I never smirked after that!
LOL, Me too!
Scored a 76%.
Almost finished 1st semester 3T : )
Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
Just average. Who knew Pittsburgh held so many relics? I mean, outside of those people who live in or near Pittsburgh, or who are far better Catholics than me, or better Christians, better historians, or better at trivia than me. I mean, besides those people.
“Saint Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburgh is home to a collection of 4,000 to 5,000 relics, including a tooth of the chapel’s patron, St. Anthony of Padua.”
I missed that one too. I remember reading that it was built bigger than St. Peter’s on purpose, so I went with that. I’m not sure how it helps the Ivory Coast with all the other problems there, but there you go, a beautifully big dome.
80% for me. I got all the doctrinal questions right, but didn’t know some of the geographical trivia.
Regards,
From the Christian Science Monitor??? Okay, I’ll bite, but I know I’m not gonna’ like what I find...
Yup, sure enough, they just had to throw in the pedophile angle:
24. The 2004 John Jay report found that, between 1950 and 2002, about what percentage of priests in the United States had a sexual experience with a minor?
0.01 percent
0.1 percent
4 percent
40 percent
Sheesh! Yup, I knew it. They couldn’t pass up the opportunity to slam the Catholic Church!
I wonder how many editors on the Christian Science Monitor’s staff are pedophiles?
10 percent?
40 percent?
60 percent?
100 percent?
....
That’s what I checked too. We were right!
Yup, I missed some of those, too. I got the smallest nation and the Vatican diplomacy questions right, though.
I ended up with 19 correct, 6 wrong. Giving me a score of 76 percent. I guess I suck as a Catholic.
But, I think the REAL reason the Christian Science Monitor decided to do the quiz was so they could slam Catholics with question number 24!:
....
24. The 2004 John Jay report found that, between 1950 and 2002, about what percentage of priests in the United States had a sexual experience with a minor?
....
Am I right, or am I right?
Cheers!
Yup. A leopard can’t change its spots, nor can a Liberal rag like the Christian Science Monitor forgo slamming Catholics.
Cheers!
Right, because when you think Catholic Church, you’re thinkin’ paedophilia. So nice of the CSM to remind us.
(BTW I missed that one too - I thought 4% sounded high. My guess was 1% I think. But of course the popular perception is that they all are guilty.)
That was my initial thought but on greater reflection, given the low percentage, I think they factored it in because the majority of non-catholics presume it to be much greater.
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