Munus Docendi - Astigueta (Prepared: Hastings) Flashcards
Working Definition: Ordinary Magisterium
Day-to-day
Working Definition: Extraordinary Magisterium
Ordinary with special solemnities
Working Definition: Universal Magisterium
By all and for all
Working Definition: De fide credenda
Concerns the deposit of faith
Working Definition: De fide tenenda
Concerns the secondary object of revelation, i.e., those things that support and defend it
Working Definition: Infallible
Inerrant
Working Definition: Definitive
Been defined and unable to be changed
Working Definition: Believe with Divine and Catholic Faith
What this concerns are those things within the Church from God who cannot deceive or be deceived
Working Definition: Firmly Embrace and Retain
Hold a truth based on God’s action in the Church by the Holy Spirit
Working Definition: Religious Assent of the Intellect and Will
Not teaching against and trying to agree with teaching
Things to ask with these canons
Subjects, Kind of Teaching, Who's acting Quality: Definitive or not How is it done? What does it contain? Response of the Faithful
Working Definition: Authentic Magisterium
Magisterium exercised by those who are doctors with authority given by Christ (i.e., bishops and esp. the RP). Mostly the same as magesterium, but makes more clear the sort of response it can demand from the faithful: religious submission/assent of the spirit/intellect+will.
Working Definition: Ministry of the Word of God
Strictly speaking, official activity for the transmission of the word of God.
Widely speaking, the general responsibility of all the faithful to announce Christian doctrine, either by witness or by official activity
A.K.A., the announcement of the gospel, the proclamation of Christian doctrine.
Working Definition: Preachng
The announcement of the living Word of God that gathers the people of God together.
N.B.: Not only at the beginning, but also ongoing nourishment for faith and life. Less systematic than catechesis. Directed to deeper conversion, showing what one must believe and do for God’s glory and men’s salvation. The words living and gather are important in the above definition. More than only homilies.
Working Definition: Homily
Preaching during the Mass which explains some aspect of the readings from Sacred Scripture or other texts of the Mass, done by a sacred minister, taking to account of the mystery celebrated and the needs of the listener.
N.B.: In a wide sense, also similar preaching in other liturgies.
Working Definition: Catechesis
Instruction on faith and morals done in such a way that the faithful know explicity what they must believe and confess and how they should behave. It stirs up faith and makes it aware and working.
N.B.: Catechesis should be done by opportune instruction. Even children and less educated people should be able to understand the catechesis.
Working Definition: Mission Work
Action to implant the church among people and groups where it has not yet taken root. The action is directed to the foundation of the church in that place by the announcement of the Gospel and to the continual support of such churches until they able to do the work of evangelization by their own sufficient means.
Working Definition: Education
Integral formation of the human person which develops his physical, moral, and intellectual gifts, gives him a more perfect sense of responsibility and right use of responsibility and prepares him for active participation in the life of society, all in view of his ultimate end and the common good of all.
Working Definition: Catholic Education
Education where Catholic faith illuminates the person’s ultimate end and the common good of all, where a life of faith strengthens her personal development, and where she enters the mystery of faith more deeply.
Working Definition: University
An academic community that contributes in a rigorous and critical way to the guarding and development of human dignity and the cultural heritage by means of research, teaching, and service.
Working Definition: Catholic University
A university which gives superior levels of human cultural formation according to a Catholic (Christian) spirit.
Working Definition: Ecclesiastical University
A university directed to the investigation and instruction of sacred disciplines and those connected to the sacred.
Working Definition: Mandatum
A statement of authority which certifies that apostolate of the laity is in communion with the church and generates a special responsibility for the authority in view of the common good.
Working Definition: Canonical Mission
A statement of authority granting to some lay person a share in a work usually done by the hierarchy.
N.B. This means submission to some authority and a closer link to them.
Working Definition: Censor
An expert entrusted by the competent authority with the power to examine books for errors in faith and morals.
Working Definition: Imprimatur
Approval granted by ecclesiastical authority to print some book.
Working Definition: Nihil obstat
Attestation by ecclesiastical authority or by a censor that no error prevents this book from being published.
N.B. Often used to imply the presence of approval/permission from the same authority.
Chart:Which are the two parts of the munus docendi?
Authentic Magisterium and Munus Propheticum
Chart: Which are the two parts of the munus propheticum?
Infallibe and Non-infallible
Chart: What is the infallible munus propheticum?
Sensus fidelium
Chart: What is the fallible munus propheticum?
Theologians, catechists, all Christians who exercise the prophetic OFFICE
Chart: What are the two types of Authentic Magisterium?
Infallible and Fallible
Chart: Who gives fallible, Authentic Magisterium?
RP, CollBishops, Single Bishops, Episcopal Conferences, Particular Councils, Authority of the Church (decrees, correction of errors, etc.)
Chart: When do the RP and CollBishops give fallible, Authentic Magisterium?
As regards faith and moral, but not as a decisive act
Chart: When do singular bishops, episcopal conferences and particular councils give fallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Synods of bishops, though the bishops are authentic teachers and doctors, their teaching is not infallible
Chart: When does the more general authority of the Church give fallible, Authentic Magisterium?
When it issues decrees and constitutions to expound on a doctrine or correct error (e.g., Lumen gentium)
Chart: What response is due to fallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Firm and definitive assent
Chart: What is the penalty for going against fallible, Authentic Magisterium>
A just penalty
Chart: Who is capable of giving infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
RP (extraordinary and solemn), CollBishops (extraordinary and solemn, extraordinary and not solemn), Individual bishops (ordinary and universal)
Chart: When does the RP give infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
- When he acts as supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful
- When he proclaims that a determined doctrine in matters of faith and morals must be accept with the assent of faith
- When he declares with a formal, clear act, indicated as such, without the possibility of error, that the determined doctrine is definitively stated and must be considered as part of the faith.
Chart: When does the CollBishops give infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
The bishops as teachers and judges of faith and morals must declare a doctrine for the universal Church, regarding faith and morals, and it must be held in a definitive way.
Chart: When do individual bishops give infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
When in full communion among themselves and the head of their college, as authentic teachers of faith and morals, and when they arrive and a definitive common sentence which must be held as definitive
Chart: What are the objects of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Primary and Secondary
Chart: What is the primary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
The revealed and transmitted truth
Chart: What is the secondary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
The theological conslusions that underpin the primary object
Chart: In what way is the primary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium held?
De fide credenda (divine and Catholic)
Chart: In what was is the secondary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium held?
De fide tenenda
Chart: What is the response due to the primary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Assent of theological faith
Chart: What is the response due to the secondary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Religious assent of the intellect and will, religious assent of the soul, and observance
Chart: What is the penalty opposed to violations of the primary object of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
Heresy, carrying with it latae sententia excommunication
Chart: What is the penalty opposed to violations of the secondary objects of infallible, Authentic Magisterium?
A just penalty
What was the document that modified c. 750?
Ad tuendam fidem, JPII, 18/V/1998
C. 748: Can someone be coerced to embrace the Catholic faith?
748 §2. No one is ever permitted to coerce persons to embrace the Catholic faith against their conscience.
C 749.1: Who possesses infallibility when acting alone?
Supreme Pontiff
C 749.1: In what way does the RP act to teach infallibly?
As supreme pastor and teacher of all the Christian faithful
C 749.1: What does the RP do by teaching infallibly?
He strengthens his brothers and sisters in the faith.
C 749.1: By what means does RP teach infallibly?
Definitive act
C 749.2: Who, besides RP, teaches infallibly?
College of Bishops
C 749.2: In what to ways does College of Bishops teach infallibly?
Ecumenical council or scattered throughout the world in communion among themselves and RP, teaching authentically
C 749.2 and 749.1: What matter can be taught infallibly?
Faith and morals
C 749.2: Does the College of Bishops teach definitively when they teach infallibly?
Yes
C 749.3: When is a doctrine understood as defined infallibly? In other words, what is the necessary condition for this?
It must be manifestly evident.
What is the parallel canon to 749.2?
337.2 (Para 1 included here for context)
Can. 337 §1. The college of bishops exercises power offer the universal Church in a solemn manner in an ecumenical council.
§2. It exercises the same power through the united action of the bishops dispersed in the world, which the Roman Pontiff has publicly declared or freely accepted as such so that it becomes a true collegial act.
Are there things taught in an extraordinary way that are not infallible?
Yes. E.g., decrees of an ecumenical council not intended to be definitive teaching, i.e., Lumen gentium
C 750.1: Who must believe this: “with divine and Catholic faith all those things contained in the word of God, written or handed on, that is, in the one deposit of faith entrusted to the Church, and at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either by the solemn magisterium of the Church or by its ordinary and universal magisterium which is manifested by the common adherence of the Christian faithful under the leadership of the sacred magisterium; therefore all are bound to avoid any doctrines whatsoever contrary to them.”
All the faithful
C 750.1: How do the Christian faithful believe in those things which are “contained in the word of God, written or handed on, that is, in the one deposit of faith entrusted to the Church, and at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either by the solemn magisterium of the Church or by its ordinary and universal magisterium which is manifested by the common adherence of the Christian faithful under the leadership of the sacred magisterium;”
With divine and Catholic faith
C. 750.1: What is “divine and Catholic faith”?
Note the ablative absolute.
Divine: something from Revelation that we have received from God who can neither deceive nor be deceived
Catholic: connected to the Church
C. 750.1: What is the significance of “proposed”?
This gives a relationship of justice. Before proposal, there is no obligation. So, St. Thomas Aquinas was free to not give his assent to the Immaculate Conception before it was proposed (Dec 8, 1854, Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus)
C. 750.1: What is the difference between “solemn” and “extraordinary”?
No difference
C. 750.1: Does “extraordinary” equal “revelation”?
Nope. Extraordinary has to do with the solemnities. (E.g., Vat II document, Inter mirifica, the decree on social communications)
C. 750.2: What is to be “firmly embraced and retained”?
“Each and every thing which is proposed definitively by the magisterium of the Church concerning the doctrine of faith and morals, that is, each and every thing which is required to safeguard reverently and to expound faithfully the same deposit of faith…”
C. 750.2: How are things to be known as things to be firmly embraced and retained?
If they are proposed definitively.
C. 750.2: How is this distinct from 750.1 in terms of material?
The material in 750.2 is not part of the deposit of faith.
C. 750.2: Name an example of something this covers.
The term “transubstantiation.”
C. 750: What are the “de fide” titles for each paragraph?
- 1: De fide credenda
750. 2: De fide tenenda
C. 750: Upon what are the “de fide” titles founded?
- 1: De fide credenda: Divine Revelation
750. 2: De fide tenenda: Promise of the Holy Spirit to the Church
C. 750: How, according to 750, do I break communion?
750.2: “therefore, one who rejects those propositions which are to be held definitively is opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church.”
C. 751: What, in 750, is associated with heresy?
Refusal of those things governed by paragraph 1.
C. 751: Is schism about belief or about refusal?
It is about refusal.
C. 751: What is heresy?
Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith
C. 751: What is apostasy?
apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith;
C. 751: What is schism?
schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
C. 752: What kind of belief must be given “to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act;”
“Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will…”
“religiosum tamen intellectus et voluntatis obsequium”
C. 752: What does “a religious submission of the intellect and will” look like, practically?
A person will accept what the Church says and not teach against it.
C. 752: What is the significance of “cum magisterium authenticum exercent”
Authentic is used here to emphasize that this teaching is done with the authority of Christ.
C. 753: Again, what does “authentic” mean?
Authentic is used here to emphasize that this teaching is done with the authority of Christ.
C. 753: Who is “bound to adhere with religious submission of mind to the authentic magisterium of their bishops”?
The Christian faithful
C. 753: How are the Christian faithful to believe what their bishops say?
The Latin here is important: “religioso animi obsequio adhaerere tenentur.”
“bound to adhere with religious submission of mind.” The Latin is not “mens”, but “animus”. This is a bit tricksy to tease out. Return to your St. Thomas and beg Ghirlanda for mercy.
C. 753: What is the minimum required for “religioso animi obsequio adhaerere tenentur”?
You cannot teach against this and you ought to try to understand it.
C. 754: What is obliged to “observe the constitutions and decrees which the legitimate authority of the Church issues in order to propose doctrine and to proscribe erroneous opinions, particularly those which the Roman Pontiff or the college of bishops puts forth”?
All Christian faithful
C. 754: What does this canon not cover that makes it different from the previous canons?
Faith and morals.
C. 754: Give an example of something that falls under this canon.
The new profession of faith must be used, but it isn’t per se a matter of faith and morals, but internal discipline. It comes from the CDF.
C. 756.2: What role does the individual bishop exercise in his particular church as regards the “entire ministry of the word within it”?
He is the moderator.
C. 757: Who helps the bishop in his role as moderator?
Can. 757 It is proper for presbyters, who are co-workers of the bishops, to proclaim the gospel of God; this duty binds especially pastors and others to whom the care of souls is entrusted with respect to the people committed to them. It is also for deacons to serve the people of God in the ministry of the word in communion with the bishop and his presbyterium.
C. 757: Concerning the “ministry of the word of God”, what are its limits?
Strictly understood: All official teaching activity
Broadly understood: all acts of the Christian faithful as teachable moments
C. 764: What is the nature of the preaching faculty?
It is specific and legal. It is not about the capacity to preach, but the legal ability to preach.
C. 764/766: Distinguish between the difference between Bishops and Priests and then between Priests and Lay folks.
Can. 764 Without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 765, presbyters and deacons possess the faculty of preaching everywhere; this faculty is to be exercised with at least the presumed consent of the rector of the church, unless the competent ordinary has restricted or taken away the faculty or particular law requires express permission.
Can. 766 Lay persons can be permitted to preach in a church or oratory, if necessity requires it in certain circumstances or it seems advantageous in particular cases, according to the prescripts of the conference of bishops and without prejudice to ⇒ can. 767, §1.
C. 767: What is the difference between preaching and the homily?
Strictly speaking, the homily is what happens during Mass. It is a type of preaching, much like a square is to a rectangle. It is proper to clerics. In other liturgical actions, there could be preaching, but not a homily. Lay people can preach, for example, when they are commissioned to do baptisms or weddings, but this is not a homily in the strict sense.
C. 803.1: What is a Catholic school?
Can. 803 §1. A Catholic school is understood as one which a competent ecclesiastical authority or a public ecclesiastical juridic person directs or which ecclesiastical authority recognizes as such through a written document.
C. 807: What is a Catholic university?
Can. 807 The Church has the right to erect and direct universities, which contribute to a more profound human culture, the fuller development of the human person, and the fulfillment of the teaching function of the Church.
C. 815: What is an ecclesiastical university?
Can. 815 Ecclesiastical universities or faculties, which are to investigate the sacred disciplines or those connected to the sacred and to instruct students scientifically in the same disciplines, are proper to the Church by virtue of its function to announce the revealed truth.
C. 816: Who is competent for ecclesiastical universities?
Can. 816 §1. Ecclesiastical universities and faculties can be established only through erection by the Apostolic See or with its approval; their higher direction also pertains to it.
§2. Individual ecclesiastical universities and faculties must have their own statutes and plan of studies approved by the Apostolic See.
C. 817: What can ecclesiastical universities grant that no one else can, and by whose authority?
Can. 817 No university or faculty which has not been erected or approved by the Apostolic See is able to confer academic degrees which have canonical effects in the Church.
