Theology

Great French mathematician who disagreed with the rationalists and said reason was not enough to know Truth, revelation was still necessary. 

Blaise Pascal

Helped bring the Church through the confusion of the Enlightenment and into the modern era, particularly by affirming certain traditional teachings, but allowing engagement with modern scholarly and scientific methods and investigations. 

Pope Leo XIII

You can be Deist and Catholic or Christian. 

False

The thirty to forty thousand priests who refused to take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy were driven into exile, hiding, or killed in mass by the French Revolution. 

True

Made Deism the official belief and had priests take an oath of loyalty to the State. 

The French Revolution

Jansenism

Movement started by some Catholic priests and sisters that set a very standard of perfection and poverty for average Christians and was eventually condemned by the pope.

secularization

The societal process of privatizing religion and excluding it from public life.

Deism

Belief that God created the Universe but then stepped away from it and doesn't intervene in history.

rationalism

Emphasizes the ability of human reason to determine the truth of things.

ultramontism

A strong emphasis on the authority and guidance of the pope.

Spoke of the ultimate authority of God's revelation and taught that nature and reason are subordinate to grace and faith. 

Dei Filius

Emphasized the primacy and infallibility of the pope, even in the face of criticisms of the Enlightenment and modernity. 

Pastor Aeturnus