Monday, September 4, 2006

16. To whom is given the task of authentically interpreting the deposit of faith?

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Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church


16. To whom is given the task of authentically interpreting the deposit of faith? - 85 - 90; 100


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.


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