Magisterium AI

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

  • Promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI
  • 2005 AD
  • Compendium

Part One - The Profession of Faith. CHAPTER TWO - God Comes to Meet Man. The Transmission of Divine Revelation

16To whom is given the task of authentically interpreting the deposit of faith? The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the deposit of faith has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone, that is, to the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome, and to the bishops in communion with him. To this Magisterium, which in the service of the Word of God enjoys the certain charism of truth, belongs also the task of defining dogmas which are formulations of the truths contained in divine Revelation. This authority of the Magisterium also extends to those truths necessarily connected with Revelation.