Magisterium refers to the "teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church". The word's derived from Latin magisterium, which originally meant the office of a president, chief, director, superintendent, etc. (in particular, though rarely, the office of tutor or instructor of youth, tutorship, guardianship) or teaching, instruction, advice. In the Roman Catholic Church the word "Magisterium" refers to the teaching authority of the church. This authority's understood to be embodied in the episcop… (More on Magisterium)