10B Study Questions for FOC v3, pt2, ch 22-24
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  1. Study Questions: ch 22-24, FOC v 3, pt 2


    Chapter 22 Masterpieces of God’s Grace
    1. Until the Protestant Reformation, what was the constant tradition of the Church regarding the saints?
    2. What other doctrines did the Protestant Reformers reject?
    3. Explain the Biblical basis for the veneration of saints.
    4. How did St. Åugustine justify the veneration of saints?
    5. How did the Church answer the Protestant objection that veneration of saints takes away from the mediatorship of Christ?
    6. What is theBiblical basis for veneration of relics?
    7. In which Council and in what year did the Church declare that the veneration of images of the saints and Christ permissible and good?

    Chapter 23
    1. How may we assist the poor souls in Purgatory?
    2. Why do Protestants not pray for their dead?
    3. How far back does the Catholic practice praying for the dead go?
    4. To what dogma of the Church is prayer for the dead related?
    5. What is the Biblical basis for praying for the dead?
    6. In which Council and in what year did the Church finally codify the practice of offering suffrages for the dead?
    7. How do suffrages work?
    8. Besides ourselves here on earth, who else can assist the poor souls in Purgatory?
    9. May we pray to as well as for the poor souls in Purgatory?


    Chapter 24
    1. With what area of doctrine was the Vatican II Council largely concerned?
    2. Why is the Church concerned with social and external environment of this world?
    3. What is Christian humanism?
    4. In what overlapping areas of State concern does the Church claim a right to act?
    5. What is the Church’s mission to the social order?
    6. What is the order of priority between the Church’s religious mission and her social mission?
    7. What is ecumenism? What sin does it address?







Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX