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Chapter 14: A Light in the Darkness, Pt. IIA. Vocabulary (19 pts.) Instructions: Write a brief definition for each of these terms, found

in Chapter 14. Many of these are defined contextually in the chapter, and you may copy the definition given. Use other resources, including the glossary, if necessary.

1. Lay investiture:

2. Pope Saint Gregory VII:

3. King Henry IV of Germany:

4. Excommunication:

5. schism:

6. The Great Schism:

7. pilgrimages:

8. the Byzantine Empire:

9. Crusades:

10. The Way of the Cross:

11. The First Commandment:

12. heresy:

13. the Inquisition:

14. St. Francis of Assisi:

15. Medicant Order:

16. spirituality:

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17. Saint Dominic:

18. St. Thomas Aquinas:

19. Summa Theologiae:

B. Notes on our Reading (Thinking questions: Not all answers are found in your book)

1. Losing and Regaining Focus,

a. Who was involved in the power struggle taking place in Europe between 500-1000 AD?

b. Why were bishops involved in government?

c. What kind of abuses crept in when Church leaders became political leaders?

d. What is lay investiture?

e. Who fought to end the practice of lay investiture?

f. Power and greed are not only problems for kings and leaders. These problems face us

daily as selfishness, envy, and jealousy. Which commandments do these violate?

2. Read A Serious Break, pg. 102

a. What is a schism?

b. What were the causes of the Great Schism?

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2.

3.

4.

c. In _______________, the Pope _____________________ the Patriarch of

Constantinople, and the Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated the __________.

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d. Since ____________________, groups of Eastern Christians have resumed full

communion with the pope. These are the ________________________ Catholic

Churches. Some examples are the Syro-Malabar Church, the Ukrainian Catholic Church,

and the Ethiopian Catholic Church.

e. Churches not in communion with the Pope are called ____________________________

Churches. Examples include the Russian Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church,

and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

f. Because they have apostolic succession, which means that their bishops can be traced

back to the ______________________, the Eastern Orthodox Churches have true

sacraments and a true priesthood. They are closely tied to the Catholic Church, though

not in communion with us.

g. Today, efforts are taking place to bring about unity between the Roman Catholic Church

and the Eastern Orthodox Church. We call these efforts _________________________.

3. The Crusades

a. What is the common name for the place where Jesus lived?

b. At the end of the 10th Century, a period of stable relations existed between the three

major faith groups: ____________________, _____________________, and

_____________________.

c. Who were the Muslims and what threat did they pose to the Church?

d. When the Turks began expanding their empire into the Byzantine Empire, and

ambushing Christians making __________________ in the _________ ________, these

stable relations came to an abrupt end.

e. What were the Crusades?

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f. Pope Urban II began the Crusades for three reasons:

1. He hoped to stop the _____________________ that Christian pilgrims to the

_________ ________ experienced, and to win the ________ ________ back from

the ______________.

2. He wanted to stop the fighting among the rulers and feudal lords of Europe. This

would be accomplished by fighting a common enemy in the Holy Land.

3. He hoped to heal the break between the Church in the __________ and the Church

in the ___________.

g. There were ________________ crusades over _______________ years.

h. Were the Crusades successful?

i. Both _________________ and _____________________ committed atrocities. In one

shameful Crusade, the Western Catholics slaughtered a group of Eastern Catholics,

worsening the rift between the two groups.

4. In Search of Heretics

a. How is heresy a violation of the First Commandment?

b. How did the Church respond to heresy?

c. What good came out of the Inquisition?

d. Because of the union of ________________ and ________________, anyone who didn’t

follow the faith was a _____________________ to the state. The punishment was often

_______________. The Inquisition often spared people from this punishment.

e. What bad things resulted from the Inquisition?

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4. A Blend of Church and State

a. How did the Church influence everyone’s lives?

5. A Light to those in Need

a. Who was St. Francis of Assisi?

b. What religious order did he establish?

c. How did Francis help the Church?

d. What is a Mendicant order?

e. Members of the Mendicant orders take vows of _____________________,

___________________, and _____________________.

f. How is this order of monks different from the Benedictines?

g. Spirituality is a way of looking at our entire lives in relation to God. Why are the

Mendicant Orders good guides for spirituality?

6. Centers of Light: The Universities

a. Who was Saint Dominic?

b. What religious order did he establish?

c. What was the focus of this order?

d. The Dominican order established many ___________________ to teach the faith.

e. Which Dominican became a Doctor of the Church?

f. What did he write?

g. Why is St. Thomas Aquinas a good patron for Catholic Schools?

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