NAME ......................................................................... STUDENT # ..................................

I. [2%] From the following list of POPES, choose the appropriate entry to fill in the blanks below (names may be used more than once and there are names that will NOT be needed):

PIUS XII, LEO X, PIUS IX, JOHN XXIII, PIUS VIII, BENEDICT XV, PAUL VI, BENEDICT X, GREGORY XVI, PIUS XI, PIUS X, LEO XIII

1. As a boy Giuseppe Sarto, the future Pope ............................................, often walked the seven kilometres to and from school barefoot to save on shoe leather.

2. Before he was elected Pope in 1958, ........................................... was Patriarch of Venice.

3. Fifty days after the death of Pope Pius VIII, a learned and austere monk, with little experience of the world, was elected as Pope .................................................

4. Following the blitzkrieg in Poland, Pope .......................................................... said: "We ought to speak words of fire against such things, and the only thing that dissuades us from doing so is the knowledge that if we should speak, we would be making the condition of these unfortunate ones more difficult."

5. In 1879, Pope ........................................... honoured the English Catholic church as he raised seventy-eight year old John Henry Newman to the Cardinal's red hat.

6. In 1858, "kidnapped" Edgardo Mortara met Pope ........................................... whom he came to regard as his true father.

7. In 1929, Pope ........................................ resolved the "Roman Question" in a concordat with Mussolini.

8. In August of 1917, Pope ...................................... circulated a "peace note" to both Allied and Axis Powers setting forward his seven point plan for peace.

II. [2%] From the following list, choose the appropriate entry to fill in the blanks below (items are to be used once and there are terms that will NOT be needed):

QUANTA CURA, LAMENTABILI, IMMORTALE DEI, LONGINQUA OCEANI, DIVINO AFFLANTE SPIRITU, AD BEATISSIMI APOSTOLORUM, CUM PRIMUM, CASTI CONNUBII, RERUM NOVARUM, MORTALIUM ANIMOS, MIRARI VOS, PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS, DIUTURNUM, AETERNI PATRIS, SINGULARI NOS.

1. With his 1914 encyclical, .........................................................., Benedict XV brought an end to the panic measures resorted to by the church in face of the modernist crisis.

2. With the approval of Pius X, in July of 1907, the Holy Office issued the decree, ......................................................, which strongly condemned sixty-five propositions containing in summary form the errors imputed to "Modernism."

3. Pius XI's 1928 encyclical on religious unity, ..........................................................................., condemned "pan-Christians" while at the same time making it clear that "Holy Mother Church . . . has . . . nothing more at heart than to recall her erring sons and to lead them back to her bosom."

4. Issued on September 30, 1943, .................................................................. opened the door to the world of modern biblical scholarship for Catholic scholars set forth the basic principles Catholic biblical scholars were to follow for a sound exegesis of scripture.

5. With his 1832 encyclical ................................................., addressed to the Polish Bishops, Gregory XVI shocked Europe in that it failed to support the Polish rebellion against the hated Tsar.

6. Addressed to Catholics in the United States, Leo XIII's encyclical, ....................................................... argued that the old order was preferable to the new, and that it "would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church."

7. Pius IX's 1864 encyclical ................................................., which "condemned the monstrous portents of opinion" prevailing in the age, gave the impression that the Catholic church was against everything modern.

8. On August 4, 1879, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical ............................................................ which declared that the theology of Thomas Aquinas was to be the standard by which all Catholic philosophy and theology would be judged, thereby giving impetus to the development of Neo-Thomism and Neo-Scholasticism.

III. [6%] In short essays, answer the question following each of the quotations.

[A] ". . . I submit that seven centuries ago, in the person at least of Thomas Aquinas, the Church ran neck and neck with the world in the vanguard of progress, of modernity, of the level of the times. I further submit that for a hundred years now we have been waking up as a Church--waking up reluctantly . . .--waking up to find ourselves seven centuries behind the world, "in the unenviable position," to change the metaphor, "of always arriving on the scene a little breathless and a little late." [Frederick E. Crowe, Appropriating the Lonergan Idea (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1989), pp. 153.]

Use your knowledge of measures taken by Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Pius X to write an essay supporting Crowe's statement.

[B] "There has arisen, to the great detriment of religion, an inept method, dignified by the name of the 'higher criticism,' which pretends to judge of the origin, integrity and authority of each Book [of the bible] from internal indications alone . . . [#17].

In the second place, we have to contend against those who, making an evil use of physical science, minutely scrutinize the Sacred Book in order to detect the writers in a mistake . . . . 'whatever they [scientists] assert in their treatises which is contrary to these Scriptures of ours, that is to the Catholic faith, we must either prove it as well as we can to be entirely false, or at all events, we must, without the smallest hesitation, believe it to be so' . . . [#18].

. . . For all the books which the Church receives as sacred and canonical, are written wholly and entirely, with all their parts, at the dictation of the Holy Ghost. . . . 'And the Church holds them as sacred and canonical . . . because, having been written under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their author' [#20]. [Pope Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus, 1893.]

How would Leo XIII have answered the question 'Did Moses write the Pentateuch?' and how do contemporary Catholic scripture scholars answer it.