Magisterium

"For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths" (2 Tim 4:3-4).

• Ordinary Magisterium: Bishops acting in union with the pope, especially in an ecumenical council.
• Extraordinary Magisterium: The pope exercising the infallibility of the Church in union with the College of Bishops.
• Representatives of the Magisterium: priests, deacons, theologians.