The magisterium of the Catholic Church is the church's authority or office to give authentic interpretation of the word of God, "whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition".[1][2][3] According to the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, the task of interpretation is vested uniquely in the Pope and the bishops,[4] though the concept has a complex history of development. Scripture and Tradition "make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God, which is entrusted to the Church",[5] 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".[6]
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- ^ "What Is the Magisterium? | Thomas Storck | IgnatiusInsight.com". www.ignatiusinsight.com. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
- ^ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85)
- ^ "The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the college of bishops in communion with Him" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85, 100)
- ^ "Dei verbum". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
- ^ "Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2018-08-16.