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n. the teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The magisterium of the Catholic Church is the church's authority or office to establish its own authentic teachings. That authority is vested uniquely by the pope and by the bishops, under the premise that they are in communion with the correct and true teachings of the faith. Sacred scripture and sacred tradition "make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God, which is entrusted to the Church", and the magisterium is not independent of this, since "all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed is derived from this single deposit of faith."
Magisterium describes the teaching authority of the Catholic Church, including:
- Ordinary magisterium (disambiguation)
- Extraordinary magisterium (disambiguation)
It may also refer to:
- Non-overlapping magisteria, a view on the relationship between religion and science proposed by Stephen Jay Gould
- Magisterium of Pius XII, a collection of works by Pope Pius XII
- Magisterium, the fictional theocratic authority in the fantasy novels His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Usage examples of "magisterium".
Before he citronise: Some fifteen days, The magisterium will be perfected.
Opus, which he ran with obscure criterialike a Mafia shrouded in whitenot accepting papal magisterium when it failed to coincide with his way of thinking.
King Solomon had been in command of the Grand Magisterium, he would have used it.
Protestants cannot know what a comfort dogmatic authority and the Magisterium of the Holy Father can be in cases of doubt.
But it was always possible for independent agencies to grow up under the protection of another part of the Magisterium, and the Oblation Board, which the Librarian had referred to, was one of these.
Coulter is not a priest, of course, but she is a powerful agent of the Magisterium, and it was she who set up the Oblation Board and persuaded the Church to pay for Bolvangar, because of her interest in Dust.
The Magisterium decided that Dust was the physical evidence for original sin.
It suits the Magisterium to allow all kinds of different agencies to flourish.
But because it was an obscure and unofficial kind of operation, she was someone the Magisterium could deny if they needed to, as well.
This will mean the end of the Church, Marisa, the end of the Magisterium, the end of all those centuries of darkness!
One of the independent agencies of the Magisterium - a semi-private initiative, not entirely answerable to the Consistorial Court of Discipline.
Another very active branch of the Magisterium, along with the Consistorial Court.
This being done, it was to be my part to care for the child with the magisterium which was known to me, and as soon as it had attained to its third year Madame d'Urfe would begin to recover her self-consciousness, and then I was to begin to initiate her in the perfect knowledge of the Great Work.
The date for the formal proclamation was set for the coming Holy Year, and was to coincide with the calling of a General Council of the Church for the purpose of making a careful restatement of doctrine concerning the limitation of the magisterium to matters of faith and morals.