THY LESSON 1-2 FINALS

Question 1

More than 50 years ago, with the world on the brink of nuclear crisis, who wrote an Encyclical which not only rejected war but offered a proposal for peace?

Answer 1

Pope Saint John XXIII

Question 2

Who write/said “To all people of Good will”?

Answer 2

Pope Francis
LS no. 3

Question 3

Who advocated the message Pacem in Terris?

Answer 3

Pope Saint John XXIII

Question 4

To whom did Pope Saint John XXIII address the message of Pacem in Terris?

Answer 4

“Catholic world” and
“to all men and women of good will”

Question 5

What is the consequences of our harmful action?

Answer 5

Climate change

Question 6

What event generates or produces more damaging and irreparable impacts to communities and its environment?

Answer 6

Climate change

Question 7

Who said that, “Climate change is the consequences of our harmful actions, which unfortunately, generates or produces more damaging and irreparable impacts to communities and its environment”?

Answer 7

Pope Francis

Question 8

WHY is Laudato Si’ addressed to “every person living in this planet”?

Answer 8

1st - ALL of us are affected – there is already a CLIMATE EMERGENCY

2nd - Because we are the ones responsible or accountable to the present and future children/generation

3rd - And we “are capable of rising above ourselves”

Question 9

All is not lost. Human beings while capable of the worst, are also capable of?

Answer 9

rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start.

Question 10

We are able to take an honest look at ourselves, to acknowledge our deep dissatisfaction, and to embark on new paths to ________. No system can completely suppress _________,____________, and _______________.

Answer 10

authentic freedom

our openness to what is good, true and beautiful, or our God-given ability to respond to his grace at work deep in our hearts.

Question 11

Who said that, “ I appeal to everyone throughout the world
not to forget this dignity which is ours. No one has the right to take it from us.”?

Answer 11

Pope Francis, LS 205

Question 12

Pope urges us to respond to the signs of the times which are?

Answer 12

the ecological crisis we are all experiencing especially the global problem: Climate Change.

Question 13

In calling to caring stewardship, the pope emphasizes on the?

Answer 13

need for ecological conversion,
embracing ecological citizenship through the cultivation of ecological virtues, leading to selfless ecological commitment

Question 14

What is the Root Cause of our Ecological Crisis?

Answer 14

1. The Human Roots of the Present Ecological Crisis

a. Environmental, Social and Human Degradation
b. Technocratic Paradigm and Modern Anthropocentrism

Question 15

Pope Francis offers what criteria in Laudato Si?

Answer 15

a theological criteria to judge the crisis of our common home

Question 16

The Pope affirms that ___________ is not only about the collapse of the planet’s ecosystems…but is also a _______… is symptomatic of a _____________.

Answer 16

the ecological crisis
theological issue
deeper spiritual crisis.

Question 17

What is a a vital tool to understand the ecological crisis & to respond to it effectively, seen in Laudato Si?

Answer 17

Theology of Earth

Question 18

The contemporary ecological crisis points to the?

Answer 18

amnesia (forgetfulness) of a deeper truth

Question 19

What is the deeper truth that the contemporary ecological crisis tends to forget?

Answer 19

That the world is above all God’s creation and is permeated with the divine presence.

Question 20

For the Israelites the beginning of sin is to?

Answer 20

FORGET

Question 21

What are examples of Israelites forgetting?

Answer 21

Angel Gabriel appeared to Zechariah – Lk 1:13ff

Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary – Lk 1:30 ff

Question 22

Zechariah from the Hebrew name _____ which means _______

Answer 22

Zekharyah
God has remembered

Question 23

______ pointed out our tendency to forget the lessons of the past, thus we remain reactive

Answer 23

PCP II

Question 24

PCP II pointed out our tendency to?

Answer 24

forget the lessons of the past, thus we remain reactive

Question 25

The Good News of Creation includes?

Answer 25

a. The Plan of God for Creation
b. The Role of Man in Creation

Question 26

In the wake of modernity, we have been accustomed to look at the natural world as _________, as in __________, or as merely as __________, as in the ____________

Answer 26

inert matter – the Cartesian res extensa

modern science

storehouse of resources

neoliberal economy

Question 27

Chapter 2 of Laudato Si’ is entitled?

Answer 27

“The Gospel of Creation”

Question 28

What presents the theological foundation of the encyclical’s theological vision?

Answer 28

Chapter 2 of Laudato Si’: “The Gospel of Creation”

Question 29

Creation is Good News because?

Answer 29

1.Creation is very good in God’s own eyes
2.Creation is a profound act of love on the part of God
3.Creation is God’s first revelation

Question 30

It is ____________-that constitutes the intrinsic worth of every created reality

Answer 30

the basic goodness of creation in God’s own eyes

Question 31

__________ have an intrinsic value independent of their usefulness.

Answer 31

[Ecosystems]

Question 32

____________ inaugurates a new era in the Catholic Church’s approach to the natural world.

Answer 32

Pope Francis

Question 33

Who express and participate in the mystery of salvation?

Answer 33

The world of animals, forests, mountains and waters are inextricably part of God’s good news for us;

Question 34

We are called to recognize that other living beings have?

Answer 34

a value of their own in God’s eyes

Question 35

The German bishops have taught that, where other creatures are concerned?

Answer 35

“we can speak of the priority of being over that of being useful.”

The Catechism clearly criticizes a distorted anthropocentrism

Each creature possesses its own particular goodness and perfection.

Question 36

Each of the various creatures, willed in its own being, reflects in its own way a ?

Answer 36

ray of God’s infinite wisdom and goodness.

Question 37

T or F: Man must therefore respect the particular goodness of every creature, to avoid any disordered use of things”

Answer 37

T

Question 38

T or F: Our physical universe is an accident or a fluke event

Answer 38

F

Question 39

The whole creation & every creature is a sign of ?

Answer 39

God’s outpouring love.

Question 40

Every creature is brought into existence out of?

Answer 40

love and with a definite purpose.