Transmission of Divine Revelation

Incapable of error.

• Sensus Fidei               

• Infallible                    

• Sacred Tradition             

• Apostolic Succession 

The living teaching authority of the Church.

• Sensus Fidei

• Apostolic Succession

• Magisterium

• Pope

The supernatural appreciation of the faith on the part of the whole people of God.

• Infallible

• Magisterium

• Sensus Fidei

• Apostolic Succession

The handing on of apostolic preaching and authority from the Apostles to their successors, the Bishops, through the laying on of hands, as permanent office in the Church.

• Pope

• Magisterium

• Apostolic Succession

• Sensus Fidei

The living transmission of the Gospel message in the Church.

• Sacred Scripture

• Sacred Tradition

• Deposit of Faith

• Magisterium

A successor to the Apostles, who has received the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  He is the leader of a particular church, or diocese, entrusted to him.

• Bishop

• Pope

• Deposit of Faith

• Deacon

The full content of divine revelation communicated by Christ, contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, handed on in the Church from the time of the Apostles. And from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed.

• Apostolic Succession

• Magisterium

• Deposit of Faith

• Sensus Fidei

The successor of St Peter as bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the universal Catholic Church.

• Bishop

• Pope

• Sensus Fidei

• Deacon

Through apostolic succession, Sacred Scripture and Tradition have been handed on from the Apostles to the bishops in an unbroken line through today.

• True

• False

The Deposit of Faith is handed down only through Sacred Tradition.

• True

• False