Confidential Funds 3 Flashcards

1
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It is one of the most pressing problems and the harmful effects of environmental deterioration of our planet, which humanity has caused.

A. Climate change
B. Massive bushfires
C. Rise of sea levels
D. Corruption

A

A. Climate change

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A Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition.

A. Kate Winslet
B. Greta Thunberg
C. Nancy MacDonald
D. Grecia Hamberg

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B. Greta Thunberg

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Contemporary ecological crisis points to our forgetfulness of a more profound truth:

A. Poor people suffer too much.
B. The world is above all God’s Creation.
C. God will punish us because of our sins.
D. Natural resources are limited.

A

B. The world is above all God’s Creation.

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What do we mean: “Creation is a profound act of love on the part of God”?

A. Creation is one way to realize our dependence on God.
B. God was forced to create.
C. There was a need in God to create.
D. Creation is God’s initiation.

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D. Creation is God’s initiation.

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It was God’s first and primordial revelation.

A. Creation
B. Humanity
C. Church
D. Jesus Christ

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A. Creation

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The saint who is known to praise God in Creation. He called the sun his brother, the moon his sister, and the earth as mother.

A. St. Dominic
B. St. Francis Xavier
C. St. Thomas Aquinas
D. St. Francis of Assisi

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D. St. Francis of Assisi

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What do we mean: “Creation is very good in God’s own eyes.”

A. Every creation has an intrinsic value.

B. All creation exists without the need of God.

C. We have all the dominion as stewards.

D. Creation is dependent on God.

A

A. Every creation has an intrinsic value.

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This is the first source of our knowledge about God’s existence.

A. Social Justice
B. Faith
C. Ecological Crisis
D. Creation

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D. Creation

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What is our relationship with the environment, and how should we treat it?

A. God provided us the nature for our means of survival.

B. God created it, and we are the owners.

C. God instructed us to have dominion over them.

D. God gave it as a gift for us to care.

A

D. God gave it as a gift for us to care.

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What do we mean, “A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism”?

A. Inculturation is the key to success.

B. God has control over our current situation.

C. Humanism must be open to all religions.

D. Humanism must lead us to the Absolute Truth, God

A

D. Humanism must lead us to the Absolute Truth, God

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A trend that ruthlessly consumes, exploits, and discards human life and our natural resources as one of the root causes.

A. Throw-away Culture
B. Individualism
C. Relativism
D. Consumerism

A

A. Throw-away Culture

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True or False: Our preferential option for the poor obliges us to prioritize the most affected, “poorest of the poor,” who cry out to God for justice. However, it is not our moral obligation to respond to their suffering.

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False

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Which of the following Encyclical addresses the ecological crisis and how we should respond to it effectively?

A. Ad Gentes
B. Populorum Progressio
C. Laudato Si
D. Caritas in Veritate

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C. Laudato Si

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True or False: Laudato Si totally rejects the idea of “anthropocentric view.

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False

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True or False: According to Lynn White, Christianity is to be blamed for the environmental destruction because of the command “to Rule” “to Subdue” as found in Genesis 1:26-27 & 28.

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True

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A document that tackled the relationship between poverty and sin, stating that: The suffering has been aggravated by the insinuations of some that these calamities are punishments from God for personal and social sin.

A. The Dignity of the Rural Poor: A Gospel Concern (2007)

B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

D. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

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B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

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This CBCP Pastoral letter was published at the end of the Year for Social Concerns; where the bishops described the rural poor as “the greatest victim of our unjust economic order” and called the transgression of their dignity “a negation of Christian love.”

A. The Dignity of the Rural Poor: A Gospel Concern (2007)

B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

D. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

A

A. The Dignity of the Rural Poor: A Gospel Concern (2007)

18
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A document that tackles the issue of adequate housing, which according to John Paul II is a full human right, as emphasized in his Lenten Message for the same year.

A. The Dignity of the Rural Poor: A Gospel Concern (2007)

B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

D. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

A

D. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

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This pastoral letter served as the CBCP’s Lenten Message for that year, attempts to distinguish between different forms of poverty experienced on the material, moral and spiritual levels.

A. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

D. Poverty that Dehumanizes, Poverty that Sanctifies (2014)

A

D. Poverty that Dehumanizes, Poverty that Sanctifies (2014)

20
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It is a document that springs from the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium: that sharing, for a Christian, is not just a matter of choice but of conscience.

A. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)

B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

D. Poverty that Dehumanizes, Poverty that Sanctifies (2014)

A

C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)

21
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This document emphasizes that “All must work together for a solution that addresses the root causes of the problem, which the bishops identified as “the poverty of the majority, the destruction of the family and corruption in society.”

A. For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies - oracle of the Lord God (2017)

B. Our Country and Our Faith: The Philippine Socio-Political Landscape and our Christian Response (2016)

C. Filipino Catholic Laity: Called to Be Saints, Sent Forth As Heroes (Year of the Laity) (2013)

D. Proclaim the Message In Season and Out of Season (On Certain Social Issues of Today) (2013)

A

A. For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies - oracle of the Lord God (2017)

22
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According to this document, “the problem of drugs must be eliminated but the solution is not the extra-judicial killing of suspected drug users and pushers.”

A. For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies - oracle of the Lord God (2017)

B. Our Country and Our Faith: The Philippine Socio-Political Landscape and our Christian Response (2016)

C. Filipino Catholic Laity: Called to Be Saints, Sent Forth As Heroes (Year of the Laity) (2013)

D. Proclaim the Message In Season and Out of Season (On Certain Social Issues of Today) (2013)

A

A. For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies - oracle of the Lord God (2017)

23
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In this document, the bishops reminded the people that “peace is both our commitment and a gift of God.”

A. Proclaim the Message In Season and Out of Season (On Certain Social Issues of Today) (2013)

B. Our Country and Our Faith: The Philippine Socio-Political Landscape and our Christian Response (2016)

C. Filipino Catholic Laity: Called to Be Saints, Sent Forth As Heroes (Year of the Laity) (2013)

D. “Love and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss” (On Lay Participation in Politics and Peace) (2009)

A

D. “Love and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss” (On Lay Participation in Politics and Peace) (2009)

24
Q

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”

A. Fulton Sheen
B. Greta Thunberg
C. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
D. Pope Francis

A

B. Greta Thunberg

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“The beginning of Ecological Garbage is Moral Garbage.”

A. Greta Thunberg
B. Fulton Sheen
C. John Paul II
D. Pope Francis

A

B. Fulton Sheen

26
Q

Material Poverty the Dehumanizes. (ODD-ONE-OUT)

A. Simplicity
B. Consumerism
C. Exclusion
D. Destitution

A

A. Simplicity

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Spiritual Poverty that Dehumanizes. (ODD-ONE-OUT)

A. Religious Intolerance
B. Consumerism
C. Loneliness & Hopelessness
D. Relativism

A

B. Consumerism

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Moral Poverty that Dehumanizes. (ODD-ONE-OUT)

A. Slavery to Vice or Sin
B. Commitment to the Truth
C. Corruption
D. Inequality

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B. Commitment to the Truth

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Poverty that Sanctifies. (ODD-ONE-OUT)

A. Simplicity
B. Commitment to the good, just, and truth
C. Destitution
D. Surrender to God

A

C. Destitution

30
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Called to Caring Stewardship. (ODD-ONE-OUT)

A. Ecological citizenship
B. Ecological Degradation
C. Ecological Conversion
D. Ecological commitment

A

B. Ecological Degradation

31
Q

Acoording to Fratelli Tutti, this speaks to us of a thirst, an aspiration, a longing for a life of fulfillment, a desire to achieve great things, things that fill our heart and lift our spirit to lofty realities like truth, goodness and beauty, justice and love.

A. faith
B. love
C. justice
D. hope

A

D. hope

32
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He had his own plans for that day, his own needs, commitments and desires. Yet he was able to put all that aside when confronted with someone in need. Without even knowing the injured man, he saw him as deserving of his time and attention.

A. Galilean
B. Jew
C. Gentile
D. Samaritan

A

D. Samaritan

33
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True or False: According to Fratelli Tutti, belief in God and the worship of God are not enough to ensure that we are actually living in a way pleasing to God

A

True

34
Q

In this kind of culture, persons are no longer seen as a paramount value to be cared for and respected, especially when they are poor and disabled, ‘not yet useful’ – like the unborn, or ‘no longer needed’ – like the elderly.

A. Culture of Encounter
B. Instant Culture
C. Culture of the Ephemeral
D. Throw away Culture

A

D. Throw away Culture

35
Q

This parable shows us how a community can be rebuilt by men and women who identify with the vulnerability of others, who reject the creation of a society of exclusion, and act instead as neighbors, lifting up and rehabilitating the fallen for the sake of the common good.

A. Parable of the Good Samaritan
B. Parable of the Prodigal Son
C. Parable of the Lost Sheep
D. Parable of the Good Servant

A

A. Parable of the Good Samaritan

36
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According to Pope Francis, the love that extends beyond borders has this at its base in each city or in each country.

A. Care for creation
B. Common Good
C. Fraternal Love
D. Social Friendship

A

D. Social Friendship

37
Q

For the Jews, a “neighbor” refers to a:

A. Israelite
B. Gentile
C. Samaritan
D. Egyptian

A

A. Israelite

38
Q

This document promotes a vision of social friendship grounded in the unity of the entire human family: all people are sisters and brothers to one another, all are children of God with equal dignity and rights.

A. Christus Vivit
B. Gaudete et Exsultate
C. Laudato Si
D. Fratelli Tutti

A

D. Fratelli Tutti

39
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An Italian word which means “All Brothers”

A. Christus Vivit
B. Fratelli Tutti
C. Gaudete et Exsultate
D. Laudato Si

A

B. Fratelli Tutti

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It is a strong desire for the good, an inclination towards everything that is good and excellent, that moves us to fill the lives of others with beautiful, sublime, uplifting things.

A. erotica
B. philia
C. agape
D. benevolentia

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D. benevolentia