Unit quiz: Grace, Sacraments, and the Formed Conscience

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Question 1

One speaker says Trent teaches that people earn justification by good works, and another says that because grace does everything, conduct cannot affect a believer's standing. Which correction addresses both?The decree presents grace as prevenient and merit as itself grounded in grace, while its canons also reject presumption about one's predestination and the claim that nothing further is required.Both statements are accurate, because Catholic teaching deliberately holds incompatible positions in tension without resolution.

Question 2

An adult baptised as an infant in another Christian community asks a Catholic parish to be baptised again “properly.” What is the correct pastoral and doctrinal response?Baptise the person again, since Baptism outside the Catholic Church conferred nothing.Recognise the Baptism if it used water and the Trinitarian formula, do not repeat it, and prepare the person for reception into full communion, reserving an inquiry into validity for genuine doubt.

Question 3

A priest publishes a blog post recounting, in identifying detail, what a penitent confessed, arguing that the penitent's conduct had already become public. What is at stake?The seal of confession is inviolable: what is said in confession may not be revealed, and publishing identifying details of a penitent's sins compounds the violation regardless of motive.The seal is a disciplinary courtesy that lapses when a penitent's conduct is already known to others.

Question 4

After a public scandal, a commentator states that the person involved certainly committed a mortal sin. What is the methodological problem?Mortal sin is determined by the gravity of the external act alone, so any public scandal proves it.Mortal sin as the Church teaches it requires grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent, and no outside observer has access to the last two.

Question 5

A leaflet advertises a novena with a guaranteed outcome and invites donations in the presence of a devotional image, promising a return. Which correction follows the sources?The novena may ask the saint's intercession for a stated intention, with the outcome entrusted to God, and honour is directed to God; nothing is to be asked of an image or object.Popular piety lies outside the Church's regulation, so the leaflet stands as written.

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