Across
- 2. The act of selling church positions/offices to the highest bidder
- 4. The name of the Church in the West--led by a single pope who claims papal supremacy
- 8. Order of monks who sought to end heresy in the church
- 10. In the East this Christian religious holiday is a bigger one than Christmas
- 12. A man who devoted his life to serving God and the church, often did physical labor and farming as act of service, took care of sick. Took vows of poverty.
- 15. As the church grew in wealth power, it built these grand churches to show God's power
- 16. Sacred rituals of the church such as baptism, marriage, confession, burial rites
- 17. The divide in the church that led the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodox church to disown each other
- 19. Order of monks who sought to help people through good works
- 20. Nuns lived and worked here
- 22. The name of the Church in the East--they have a council of patriarchs who lead instead of a single pope
- 23. Beliefs that are outside of church teachings or doctrines
Down
- 1. Monks lived and worked here
- 3. The ultimate head of the Catholic church, seen as God's representative on earth
- 5. The idea that that pope should have authority over all things secular and non-secular
- 6. To banish or remove from the church
- 7. The name of the land in Italy that was controlled/ruled by the Pope
- 9. An order the pope would give to shut down church services in a region/kingdom in order to punish a King
- 11. Areas of life not governed or controlled by the church
- 13. Leader of the Eastern Orthodox church
- 14. Images of saints in the church that launched a huge controversy/fight in the East. Resentment brewed when the Pope intervened and said the icons should stay.
- 18. Priests in the West were NOT allowed to do this, but priests in the East could
- 21. As one of these, a woman could escape some of the restrictions placed on her in the Middle Ages and serve many roles such as teacher, writer, scholar, nurse