Take a few minutes and have some fun
with this Pop-Quiz.
Test your history knowledge
with these 7 True or False statements.
(Answers Below)

1. The Middle Ages are also called the Dark Ages
because it was a primitive society with little
education or pursuit of the arts
until the age of the Renaissance.

2. In the past, the Catholic Church frowned upon
independent thinking, and in some cases directly
opposed the work of scholars - especially scientists.

3. The Crusades were attempts by the powers of the West
to colonize the East and destroy the Muslims.

4.The Inquisition investigated and even executed thousands
of people - especially witches - who said things contrary to
the beliefs of the Catholic Church.

5. Galileo was brought before the Inquisition and tortured
to recant because his theory that the earth moves around the sun
contradicted what was written in the Bible.

6. The Reformation was inevitable because the hierarchy
of the Catholic Church had become corrupt and the
lay people demanded change.

7. The Spanish Conquistadors destroyed the advanced
Aztec civilization of South America with battles and disease
as they searched for gold and other riches.

Count up your answers...
How many did you answer as true?
How many did you answer as false?

Before we tell you the answers, ask yourself:
Where did you learn everything you know about these topics?

Movies? Novels? A report on TV or the radio?
Textbooks from your youth?
Your parents, priest, or Faith Formation class?

How do you know what you learned is true?

The world reviles the Catholic Church's doctrines, mocks her moral teachings and
invents lies about her history. In every age, but especially
in our modern day, historians and political powers have distorted
the facts about her past (or just made up novel falsehoods from scratch)
to make the Church, and the civilization it fostered, seem corrupt,
backward, or simply evil.

In Seven Lies about Catholic History, Diane Moczar tackles the most infamous
and prevalent historical myths about the Church - popular legends that you encounter everywhere from textbooks to T.V. -
and reveals the truth about them.

Moczar explains how the legends got started and why they're still around.
Best of all, she gives you the facts and the arguments you need
to set the record straight

Written in a brisk style that's fun and easy to read,
Seven Lies about Catholic History provides the lessons that
every Catholic needs in order to defend and explain, not just apologize for,
the Church's rich and complex history.

Oh yes, we don't want to leave you in suspense...
Here are the answers to the Pop-Quiz questions:

1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. False
6. False
7. False

All the things you should have learned in school...
but probably didn't:

Seven Lies About Catholic History

by Diane Moczar
$12.95
195 pages

Order online now or call
1.866.522.8465
www.catholiccompany.com

Diane Moczar, Ph.D., teaches history at Northern Virginia Community College.
She is the author of several books, including Islam at the Gates and
Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know.

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