John Allen has a basic Vatican Literacy Quiz up on his Blog at National Catholic Reporter. You should take it. He says that anyone that is writing on church matters or Vatican politics should get 8 out of 10 off of the top of their head. That is exactly what I got. I missed numbers 3 and 10. Though on both of them I was able to eliminate two answers very quickly and then just guessed wrong. On the other 8 no guessing was needed. How did you do?
By the way, I agree with him about not arguing with people who don't know the difference between a "dicastery and a deacon." It is just not worth the energy. The quote from Daniel Patrick Moynihan is something I have been repeating to myself daily it seems. "Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but nobody's entitled to their own facts." With that, Happy Sunday!
