Magisterium

In Catholicism, the magisterium is the authority to lay down what is the authentic teaching of the Church. For the Catholic Church, that authority is vested uniquely by the pope and by the bishops who are in communion with the correct and true teachings of the faith. Sacred Scripture and Tradition "make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God, which is entrusted to the Church", and the magisterium is not independent of this, since "all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed is derived from this single deposit of faith."