It doubtless arose from the proposed forms for the definitions of the primacy and the pontifical magisterium.
The same council defines not indeed dogma but faith - inseparable from dogma - as4 (1) revealed, (a) in Scripture or (b) in unwritten tradition, and (2) taught by the church, (a) in formulated decrees, or (b) in her ordinary magisterium.
In accord with that principle, the ordinary magisterium of the Pope consists mainly in his preaching and catecheses.
It was an imperfect word, but the word of God's own magisterium, a word of ' the Church ' .
Here, it will be useful to recall some pronouncements of the Church's Magisterium on Marian devotions.