Church Documents (Quiz)

I'm thinking of writing a quiz which requires the reader to identify whether a quote (from a Church document) is from before Vatican II, from during Vatican II (including conciliar and non-conciliar documents), or from after Vatican II. Maybe add a fourth category: "Not a real quote at all."

The point would be to surprise and educate the people taking the quiz.

Have any quotes you'd like to share? I'd request that you write the quote but don't cite it; that is, give the quote but don't say the document or who wrote it or when it was from. If you'd like, you can link to the document <a href="http://link to the document">like this</a>.

Mother Angelica quote on Catholic devotions

Mother Angelica on this week's EWTN Religious Catalogue, regarding the How-To Book of Catholic Devotions: "Now some of you can name every single Satanic heavy metal rock group out there and all their songs... and you don't know a single Catholic devotion. That says something, because, let me tell you... that other stuff will get you nowhere."

Popes' Quotes

I got an email about a web site called KeysOfPeter.org with a feature called Popes' Quotes. Here's a rather poignant one: "The Christ who calls us to the Eucharist banquet is always the same Christ who exhorts us to penance." (Redemptor Hominis 20, Pope John Paul II, March 4, 1979)

Quips and phrases

"I am proud to be Catholic, but I am Catholic to be humble."

"They say nothing gets you thinking more seriously about life than the death of a loved one. I disagree: nothing gets me thinking more seriously about life than the resurrection of Jesus."