Magisterium Quotes

God has given us the Papacy. Let us enjoy it.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

The Roman Church has never erred, nor can it err until the end of time.

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

I never heard of these bulls and encyclicals and books.

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.