The Magisterium

[W]hat is different about Catholic magisterium is precisely the opposite of what Protestants have accused us of for 5 centuries — the Magisterium is in fact remarkable in its stability and resistance to innovation. Rather than being the accretions of dark centuries, the Magisterium carries forward into a fickle world the very light of Christ’s Gospel. Rather than being confining in its power to bind the conscience, it is a freedom from the constant urge to redefine, manipulate, repackage, indeed regift Jesus himself.

Thus wrote Fr. J. Steele, a Holy Cross Father, excerpted from an e-mail conversation with the Young Fogey — The Catholic criterion.