Here’s the answers…

From Nov. 2007 Newsletter

Question:  What continent has the highest population of Catholics?

Answer:South America

South America has 310,536,000 Catholics. Add in the Catholics from Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Spain and the U.S., and that means Spanish is the number-one language spoken by Catholics!

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From Oct. 2007 Newsletter

Question:

What was the occupation of St. Luke, who was one of the four Gospel writers?

a. doctor

b. lawyer

c. mayor

d. farmer

Answer:Luke was a doctor.

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From Sept. 2007 Youth Newsletter

Question:

I was a lawyer, an intellectual, an author (in fact one of my books is still required reading for some university courses), and I eventually became the Lord Chancellor to the King. However, he and I fell out over a matter of religious principle, and I lost my head.  Who am I?

St. Thomas Didymus

St. Thomas of Hereford

St. Thomas More

St. Thomas Becket

Answer: Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More was a profoundly devout Roman Catholic (to the point of wearing a hair shirt at all times to mortify the flesh) and fell out with Henry VIII when he would not recognize Henry as head of the Church in England. Henry, being Henry, had Thomas beheaded. The book that’s still required reading? Oh, that’s ‘Utopia’ (it’s a bit of a slog for modern readers!)

Thomas a Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Henry II and he was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by four of Henry’s knights, who got the idea to do away with Thomas and win the King’s approval after Henry had expressed his annoyance with Thomas (again it was a matter of religious principle!) After that, Henry II wore a hair shirt by order of the Pope. You know, if I was named Thomas, I’d stay away from kings named Henry!

Thomas Didymus (which means the twin) was the fellow who didn’t believe that Jesus had appeared to the other disciples after His resurrection, and he has gone down in history as Doubting Thomas, which is so unfair, because, if you read the gospels, Thomas was one of the first to recognize Jesus’ divinity!

How did you do?