definitions

Question 1

What does heretic mean?

Answer 1

-someone who practices heresy

Question 2

What is a martyr?

Answer 2

-someone who dies for a cause

Question 3

What does recanted mean?

Answer 3

-a chance from turning back from being a heretic (taking it back)

Question 4

What is a diocese?

Answer 4

-an area under the care of the Bishop in the Catholic church

Question 5

What is a seminary?

Answer 5

-a training college for Priests

Question 6

What does nepotism mean?

Answer 6

-the act of granting an advantage privilege or position to relatives or close friends

Question 7

What was heresy?

Answer 7

-going against the religion of the monarch

Question 8

What was absenteeism?

Answer 8

-when Bishops never visited their dioceses

Question 9

What was pluralism?

Answer 9

-the holding of more than one ‘cure of souls’

Question 10

What was simony?

Answer 10

-the making of profit out of sacred things
-the sin of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferments and benefices etc

Question 11

What does laity mean?

Answer 11

-the ordinary members of the catholic church who are neither clergy or recipients of the holy orders or vowed to life in a religious order or congregation