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	Magisterium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magisterium (from the Latin magister: 'master') is a technical ecclesiastical term in Catholicism referring to the Pope and those Bishops who are directly under his supervision.
		Magisterium can refer to either the ordinary magisterium, which is the consensus of the Faith which has been consistently taught and believed throughout the Church's two-thousand year history.
		In contrast to this, the extraordinary magisterium lies with the Pope and the bishops assembled in an Ecumenical Council or by the Pope issuing dogmatic definitions ex cathedra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magisterium (208 words)

	Encyclopedia: Magisterium
		In Roman Catholic theology, papal infallibility is the dogma that the Pope, when he solemnly defines a matter of faith and morals ex cathedra (that is, officially and as pastor of the universal Church), is correct, and thus does not have the possibility of error.
		This informal "magisterium" is, from time to time, formally or solemnly ratified by the dogmatic definitions issued ex cathedra by the Pope, or by the bishops in council, provided that their decisions are accepted and approved by the formal Magisterium.
		The Roman Curia is the complex of the organs and the authorities that constitute the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Roman Catholic Church and the achievement of its goals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Magisterium (649 words)

	THE MAGISTERIUM
		We will notice that it is the classical, the official Magisterium that is the topic here, and that it is committed to the bishops of the Church in union with the sovereign pontiff.
		The common root from which both the Magisterium and the theologians draw their teaching is divine revelation, a revelation given by the Holy Spirit to the Catholic Church, and preserved by the Holy Spirit in that Church.
		The work of the theologian, placed as it is by its nature, in relation to the data of the Faith and the Magisterium, does not mean at all that he will always approach his subject with these data as premises from which his conclusions will be drawn.
	www.ewtn.com /library/BISHOPS/MAGSTRM.HTM (4248 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tradition and Living Magisterium
		The thought of the Church is essentially a traditional thought and the living magisterium by taking cognizance of ancient formulas of this thought thereby recruits its strength and prepares to give to immutable truth a new expression which shall be in harmony with the circumstances of the day and within reach of contemporary minds.
		With regard to official documents, the expression of the infallible magisterium of the Church embodied in the decision of councils, or the solemn judgments of the popes, the Church never gainsays what she has once decided.
		Properly speaking, this magisterium is a teaching authority; it not only presents the truth, but it has the right to impose it, since its power is the very power given by God to Christ and by Christ to His Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15006b.htm (6455 words)

	Definition of Magisterium
		The solemn magisterium is that which is exercised only rarely by formal and authentic definitions of councils or popes.
		Its matter comprises dogmatic definitions of æcumenical councils or of the popes teaching ex cathedra, or of particular councils, if their decrees are universally accepted or approved in solemn form by the pope; also creeds and professions of faith put forward or solemnly approved by pope or æcumenical council.
		The ordinary magisterium is continually exercised by the Church especially in her universal practices connected with faith and morals, in the unanimous consent of the Fathers (q.v.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Catechism/Magisterium/definition.html (228 words)

	Magisterium
		The Magisterium ensures the Church’s fidelity to the teaching of the Apostles in matters of faith and morals.
		It is this Magisterium’s task to preserve God’s people from deviations and defections and to guarantee them the objective possibility of professing the true faith without error.
		When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine for belief as being divinely revealed, and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions must be adhered to with the obedience of faith.
	www.secondexodus.com /html/catholicdefinitions/magisterium.htm (483 words)

	1997 October A Melina
		The emphasis on the fact that the so-called secondary object of the Magisterium cannot exact an irrevocable assent of faith, in as much as it is not a matter of truth divinely revealed, obscures the necessity of an acceptance and a firm reception of that which nevertheless is proposed in a definitive manner.
		Indeed, it is rightly observed that "this ordinary Magisterium is the normal form of the infallibility of the Church" (J. Ratzinger, Il nuovo popolo di Dio [Brescia,197l], 180).
		The Magisterium and the creative liberty of the theologian are seen as tending to be opposed, and the "charitable duty" of the theologian would be that of seeking to defend the faithful from the exorbitant claims of the Magisterium through the work of distinctions, delimitations, and hermeneutics.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1997/974AMeli.htm (2743 words)

	Journeyman: The Two-Fold Magisterium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I had thought of arguing for a three-fold Magisterium of hierarchy, theologians and faithful, noting that a church ruled by the masses will institutionalize pedestrian theology and worship, a church ruled by theologians will endlessly debate the arcane and the irrelevant, and a church ruled by the hierarchy will be distracted by power.
		Sometimes it's also called “the Magisterium of the Moment.” While lip service may be paid to the authority of Scripture and Tradition, Scripture can't be an authority in the sola ecclesia church because the church interprets Scripture, and Tradition can't be an authority because the church interprets Tradition.
		This is a far cry from sola ecclesia and the “Magisterium of the moment.” Dulles explicitly conditions the infallibility of the pope on (a) agreement with Scripture and Tradition, (b) agreement with the present faith of the church, (c) agreement with the universal episcopate, and (d) sufficient investigation.
	crowhill.net /journeyman/Vol1No3/dulles.html (3578 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		The historical origins of the term, “ordinary universal magisterium,” have been amply documented elsewhere.(2) In this article I consider the expanded appeals to the ordinary universal magisterium that have taken place since Vatican II and, in particular, during the pontificate of John Paul II.
		It is under the pontificate of John Paul II that we have witnessed a vast expansion of official claims for the exercise of the ordinary universal magisterium.
		Finally we may ask whether this move to assert definitive doctrines taught by the ordinary universal magisterium reflects a return to a prepositional model of revelation preoccupied with the enumeration of discrete prepositional truths and the protracted elucidation of their logical and historical relationships one to one another.
	www.womenpriests.org /teaching/gaillard.asp (7001 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Galileo and the Magisterium: a Second Look
		However, if "a religious submission of mind and will" is also due the ordinary magisterium, then we must conclude that, in matters of faith and morals at least, there is a strong case for development in the doctrine of infallibility by its application to the ordinary Magisterium of the Church.
		Thus if it is true that in the Galileo case the ordinary Magisterium condemned the scientist's propositions as errors in faith, the credibility of the Magisterium would appear to be affected.
		Is the authority of the ordinary Magisterium of the Church impugned by the condemnation of Galileo's theories as heretical?
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=559 (1907 words)

	ARTICLE-THE PAPAL MAGISTERIUM
		Thus, the specifically papal Magisterium was resoundingly re-affirmed by Vatican II — but not separately from or apart from the Church’s Magisterium shared by both the pope and the bishops.
		In the absence of the papal Magisterium, it is hard to see how the Church’s authentic teaching in the matter of ordination could ever have stood against the enormous, overwhelming pressures that have been brought to bear against it in the present pro-feminist climate.
		When Vatican Council II taught that the Catholic Church was the teacher of truth, and that the agency of her teaching of truth to whom the special assistance of the Holy Spirit was given, was nothing else but the sacred hierarchy of bishops with and under the pope, Vatican II taught truly.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1998-03-04/magisterium.html (5031 words)

	Clear Ideas on the Pope's Infallible Magisterium
		It follows that the infallibility of the Ordinary Magisterium, whether of the Universal Church or that of the See of Rome, is not that of a judgment, not that of an act to be considered in isolation, as if it could itself provide all the light necessary for it to be clearly seen.
		It is clear that when today’s popes contradict the traditional Magisterium of yesterday’s popes, our obedience is due to yesterday’s popes: this is a manifest sign of a period of grave ecclesial crisis, of abnormal times in the life of the Church.
		Catholic are least prepared to meet the crisis of the Authentic Pontifical Magisterium because of the confusion in their minds regarding the distinction between the pope’s Ordinary Infallible Magisterium and his simply "authentic" Ordinary Magisterium.
	www.sspx.org /miscellaneous/infallible_magisterium.htm (5803 words)

	Magisterium Exercises Authority In Christ's Name
		The unity of the faith, for the sake of which the Magisterium has authority and ultimate deliberative power in interpreting the Word of God written and handed down, is a primary value, which, if respected, does not involve the stifling of theological research, but provides it with a stable foundation.
		This is the context in which the conviction that theology needs the living and clarifying word of the Magisterium becomes fully understandable and perfectly consistent with the logic of the Christian faith.
		In the case of the Magisterium, authority is not exercised only when the charism of infallibility is involved; its exercise has a wider field, which is required by the appropriate defense of the revealed deposit.
	www.ewtn.com /faith/teachings/papad1.htm (882 words)

	THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH AND RELATED ISSUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As often therefore, as it is declared on the authority of this teaching that this or that is contained in the deposit of divine revelation, it must be believed by everyone as true.
		Because the Magisterium provides us with the only solid objective criteria by which we may judge what is true and false, it is important that we examine its nature in greater detail.
		It is then clear that the infallibility of the Magisterium or Ateaching authority of the Church@ derives from the Pope functioning as one hierarchical person with Christ.
	www.coomaraswamy-catholic-writings.com /Sacraments-Magisterium.htm (3612 words)

	Catholic Faith - July-August, 2001
		The Magisterium is the teaching office of the Church, accomplished by the Holy Father and the bishops teaching in union with him.
		The second point raised by the statement from the First Vatican Council is the distinction between the Church’s extraordinary Magisterium and her ordinary and universal Magisterium, that is between what is taught “by a solemn judgment or by her ordinary and universal teaching.” Thus the Magisterium operates via two methods.
		Moreover, we must distinguish the “ordinary and universal Magisterium” from simply “the ordinary Magisterium.” This latter is authoritatively discussed in the encyclical Humani Generis of Pius XII (1950) and the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, of the Second Vatican Council (1964).
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/2001-08/storck.html (2003 words)

	Novus Ordo Watch: Cardinal Siri - Pope Gregory XVII? on the Infallible Ordinary Magisterium
		It (the ordinary infallible magisterium) must be defended and taught ‘every day’ (always) and in a manner adapted to the facts and the contradictions, that by and by come to happen.
		This ordinary magisterium when it is “universal”- which implies that it is with and under the Roman Pontiff- it is definitive and irreformable, that is it is infallible (CJC 1323).
		But that is obvious that the character of authenticity of the magisterium, that requires sincere respect and real obedience, of itself does not exclude the reformability of the assertions.
	www.novusordowatch.org /siri_magist.htm (835 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Infallibility in the Context of Three Contemporary Developments
		The Extraordinary Magisterium (as distinguished from the ordinary Magisterium in item II of the outline) "Extraordinary" and "ordinary" refer to the manner in which a truth is stated, whether that truth be infallible or not.
		It is on the last point of the outline that we must expound at some length, for it is on this level that some moral matters, possibly the doctrine on male priesthood and the doctrine of Mary as Coredemptrix, are infallibly taught.
		And since the exercise of the extraordinary papal Magisterium is a stumbling block for Orthodoxy, it may be imprudent to define the dogma in that manner.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2697 (8688 words)

	CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith
		The Magisterium is exercised by the Pope and the bishops in union with him.
		The Magisterium receives divine assistance in proposing these teachings, to which the faithful "'are to adhere to it with religious assent' which, though distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it" (Catechism, no. 892, footnote omitted).
		The ordinary and universal Magisterium is the normal or usual means by which the Pope and the bishops in union with him infallibly propose teachings to the whole Church.
	www.cuf.org /Faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=149 (2664 words)

	Chapter II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Others claim on their own authority that “only those doctrines in the ordinary and universal Magisterium that have been taught everywhere and always are covered by the guarantee of infallibility.
		It is amazing to what degree this organ provides us with answers as to how to react and function, the limits of obedience to a false hierarchy, and even with regard to the authority of a pope who officially promulgates heresy under the cover of magisterial authority.
		We have spoken of the possibility of holding theological opinions, but when one examines the magisterium, there is almost nothing significant left about which to have theological opinions.
	www.coomaraswamy-catholic-writings.com /DCT-II-Magisterium.htm (8012 words)

	The Catholic Magisterium
		Apart from teaching doctrine as such, "the Magisterium can intervene in disputed questions that involve, in addition to fixed principles, certain conjectural and contingent elements," according to Donum Veritatis (on the ecclesial vocation of the theologian), a 1990 document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		On those occasions, "the willingness to give sincere submission to this teaching of the Magisterium in matters not per se irreformable must be the rule" (no. 24).
		The Magisterium is constituted by the bishops of the universal Church under the primacy of the chief bishop, the Bishop of Rome.
	mafg.home.isp-direct.com /magist03.htm (1610 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		On the other hand, when the Secretary of the CDF publishes "theological observations" concerning the doctrinal weight of recent documents of the Roman magisterium, one can hardly ignore the likelihood that his views represent an understanding of the matter that is shared by the Cardinal Prefect and other members of the CDF.
		I repeat, then, that to my knowledge the Responsum ad dubium issued by the CDF in 1995 is the first official document of the Roman magisterium that has ever declared that a specific doctrine was taught infallibly by the ordinary universal magisterium.
		The history of Catholic doctrine suggests the need of great caution in claiming that something has been taught infallibly by the ordinary universal magisterium, if there is reason to judge that a position on which there was a consensus in the past no longer enjoys such a consensus.
	www.womenpriests.org /teaching/sulliva2.asp (1908 words)

	Integrism 2. News, Opinion and Information for Catholics loyal to the Pope and Church with particular coverage of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is a crucial part of that revelation which is "received" and interpreted by the Church through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who will be with this visible Church to the very end of the world (Mt 28:20) and who came to guide her "into all truth" (Jn 16: 13).
		It is this promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit which is the assurance that the living magisterium of the Church cannot ever defect from the Faith, never become apostate, even if not a few of her members have.
		It held because the living magisterium, consisting of the Pope and all bishops in communion with him, and never apart from him, possessed both a veto power, as it were, and the authority to checkmate opposition when it crossed dogmatic lines.
	www.tcrnews2.com /integrist2.html (2273 words)

	No Infallible Interpreters Needed
		Even if it should be the case that the Magisterium interprets the Scriptures infallibly, notice that people may yet make incorrect decisions regarding the question of exactly whom to trust when it comes to claims of infallibility.
		Again, let it be the case that the Magisterium has been given the ability to make infallible decisions, even the ability to make only infallible decisions, and that God has provided the Magisterium with such abilities that God’s children may know exactly what the Scriptures have to say.
		Moreover, even if the Magisterium were infallible, notice that in everyday life in general, people misunderstand even simple words or messages of contexts such as those of conversations and print media.
	members.aol.com /yusefii/infallible.htm (504 words)

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