magisterium

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Critical Catholic thinkers who diverge from the views of the magisterium are excluded.

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine.

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  • Seems like a strong point, especially since the evangelicals who do the most to answer it basically set up an infallible magisterium or pope (s) to solve their authority problem. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
  • Furthermore, what does the "viability of a celibate male priesthood" have to do with restoring the "teaching authority (magisterium) of the pope, [providing] doctrinal clarity and unity, and [putting] an end to the deviations and diversions that sprang up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council"? —  National Catholic Reporter
  • The Church's magisterium has been conscious of the development of the instrument of social communications and has dedicated many interventions and documents to them, so that in a certain sense one can speak of a doctrine of the Church on social communications. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • Unfortunately the issue has become less of a dialogue between two "spirits" of the Church and rather a statement on which 'power' is greater within the Church-the community or the magisterium.
  • The magisterium is falsified by Bryan's own criterion. —  Triablogue
 

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  1. Latin, the office of a teacher or other person in authority, from magister, master; see magisterial.
 

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/mædʒɪsˈtiriəm/
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