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11. Established Vatican City as a sovereign country separate from Italy
12. Peru
13. Iraq
14. Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits
15. ___
16. Cuba
17. May 1
18. Industrial workers’ rights
19. Liberation theology
20. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
21. Defense industry
22. Mexico
One question that would belong in this list:
Which jesuit priest known for his strong opposition of the war in Viet Nam unseated a 14 team Congressman to get elected to the US Congress, introduced articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, not for Watergate, but for secretly bombing Cambodia, and retired from Congress after Pope John Paul II banned priests from holding political office?
Thanks for the additional question about the Jesuit priest-congressman. I had not heard of Fr. Robert Drinan. The closest Indian Jesuit equivalent is Fr. Jerome D'Souza, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly, represented India at the UN General Assembly and held talks with the French on handing over Pondicherry.
I should add here that Jean-Bertrand Aristide was expelled by the Salesian order in 1988 for his political activism. He was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 and left the priesthood in 1994.
In Paraguay, Fernando Lugo got out of his position as a Catholic bishop to successfully run for president.
There's also Jozef Tiso, the Catholic priest-politician who headed a Slovak state under Nazi Germany and was executed after the Second World War.
Just thought of Kerala's Father Vadakkan. He was involved in the Vimochana Samaram against the EMS government only to later find common cause with the Communists. He was one of the founders of the Karshaka Thozhilali Party and unsuccessfully ran for the Lok Sabha in 1977. https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_id=21812
1. Timor-Leste
3. DRC
4. Women bishops
5. Brazil
8. Vietnam
9. Kerala
10. Missionaries to the New World?
11. Carved out the Vatican territory from the Kingdom of Italy
12. Peru
13. The Levant?
16. Taiwan
17. May 1st
19. Liberation theology?
22. El Salvador
1) Correct
3) Correct
4) Ban on women becoming priests.
5) Correct
8) Correct
9) Correct
10) Swiss Guard
12) Correct
13) Palestine
16) Correct
17) Correct
19) Correct
22) Correct
1. Timor-Leste
3. I'm guessing Angola because it was a Portuguese colony
4. Ban on priests marrying
5. It's not the US but I can't think of another country with a large evangelical population
8. Vietnam?
9. Kerala
10. The Swiss Guard
12. Peru
13. Cyprus?
14. The Society of Jesus. Mandatory question for Loyolites :)
16. Cuba
17. May Day?
19. Liberation theology?
21. Hollywood. I'm guessing it's the more formal name for the Hays Code
1) Correct
3) Democratic Republic of the Congo
4) Correct
5) Brazil. Evangelicals have been a major support base for Jair Bolsonaro.
8) Correct
9) Correct
10) Correct
12) Correct
13) Palestine
14) Correct. So you are a Loyolite? Which batch?
16) Not Cuba. This is the island with which all the major powers have a thriving economic relationship.
17) Yes, May 1
19) Correct
21) Correct. Good get on the Hays Code.
Sorry 4 is ban on women becoming priests
1. Timor Leste
2. ___
3. Angola
4. Ban on priests marrying
5. Brazil
6. ___
7. ___
8. Viet Nam
9. Kerala
10. The Swiss Guard
11. Established Vatican City as a sovereign country separate from Italy
12. Peru
13. Iraq
14. Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits
15. ___
16. Cuba
17. May 1
18. Industrial workers’ rights
19. Liberation theology
20. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
21. Defense industry
22. Mexico
One question that would belong in this list:
Which jesuit priest known for his strong opposition of the war in Viet Nam unseated a 14 team Congressman to get elected to the US Congress, introduced articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, not for Watergate, but for secretly bombing Cambodia, and retired from Congress after Pope John Paul II banned priests from holding political office?
4 is ban on women becoming priests.
1) Correct
2)
3) Democratic Republic of the Congo
4) Correct
5) Correct
8) Correct
9) Correct
10) Correct
11) Correct
12) Correct
13) Palestine
14) Correct
16) Not Cuba
17) Correct
18) Correct
19) Correct
20) Correct
21) Hollywood
22) El Salvador
Thanks for the additional question about the Jesuit priest-congressman. I had not heard of Fr. Robert Drinan. The closest Indian Jesuit equivalent is Fr. Jerome D'Souza, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly, represented India at the UN General Assembly and held talks with the French on handing over Pondicherry.
I should add here that Jean-Bertrand Aristide was expelled by the Salesian order in 1988 for his political activism. He was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 and left the priesthood in 1994.
In Paraguay, Fernando Lugo got out of his position as a Catholic bishop to successfully run for president.
There's also Jozef Tiso, the Catholic priest-politician who headed a Slovak state under Nazi Germany and was executed after the Second World War.
Just thought of Kerala's Father Vadakkan. He was involved in the Vimochana Samaram against the EMS government only to later find common cause with the Communists. He was one of the founders of the Karshaka Thozhilali Party and unsuccessfully ran for the Lok Sabha in 1977. https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_id=21812