Stuff Catholics Like

Catholics love lists. They’ve inherited this trait from their Jewish forebears.  Adam named the animals, and Noah probably used a list to make sure he got them all on the ark.
His descendants made sure they included long lists of geneology in their sacred Scripture. Eventually they graduated into discreet quantities:12 Tribes of Israel, The 10 Plagues, The 10 Commandments, etc.

Catholics have taken up this tradition with reckless abandon.  Not satisfied with the predictable Twelve Apostles and Four Evangelists, Catholics have made it a hobby to create lists, such as the infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum, (which has given the American Library Association’s a yearly celebration of themselves and bad literature.)

Some bishops in the Church like to mix things up by changing the number of Holy Days of Obligation.  The Supreme Pontiff Pope John Paul II himself decided to
(gasp) add to the list of the mysteries of the rosary.  That move got some circles questioning papal infallibility, even though it wasn’t a statement of faith and morals issued ex cathedra.

Lists are a great way of making sure you don’t forget anything, or get away with leaving out like things you just don’t like, such as the books of Maccabees or The First Letter of James.  See if you can fill in the blanks, and if you can then enumerate the lists:

__ Last words of Christ

__ Apostles

__ Holy Days of Obligation

__ Mysteries of the Rosary (including the new ones)

__ Holy Days of Obligation (all that might be obligatory).

__ Sorrows of Mary

__ Gifts of the Holy Spirit

__ Spiritual works of mercy.

__ Corporal works of mercy

__ Doctors of the Church

__ Theological virtues

__ Cardinal virtues (even though Cicero may have been the first to list these, any self-  respecting Catholic home-schooler should know this.)

__ Latin adjectives that take the dative case (see note above).

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