What is the Church's teaching authority called?

• A. Liturgy
• B. Magisterium
• C. The Church
• D. Grace

Answer: (B)

The Church's official teaching authority is called the Magisterium. This is the living teaching office of the Catholic Church, made up of the pope and the bishops in communion with him. Their role is to safeguard, interpret, and hand on Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition so that believers know what to hold as true and how to live it out in faith and morals. They speak with authority on what is essential for faith and morality, especially in questions that affect the whole Church.

Liturgy refers to the public worship and the sacraments, which are the ways the Church cults and encounters God. The Church can mean the people of God or the building and community as a whole, not the specific office that teaches. Grace is God’s gift of His life and help in us. So the term that best fits “the Church's teaching authority” is the Magisterium.