It is imcumbant on every outspoken critic of the Church to actually know the subject matter before foolishly opining.
There are two categories two categories of Magisterium; the Solemn Magisterium and the Ordinary Magisterium, differentiated by the gravity of their pronouncements. The Solemn Magisterium speaks from the Chair of Peter on matters of dogma.
The Magisterium is comprised of the Pope and the Episcopacy of the Church. The bishops consider an issue and advise the Pope, who with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then speaks on the issue. It functions today as it always has:
"The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter. After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “My brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the Gentiles would hear the message of the good news and become believers. And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us; " Acts 15:6-8.
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Excuses, excuses.......
You don’t say! So it’s the head dog who “with the guidance of the Holy Spirit makes the pronouncement and “speaks on the issue” ey? Well lets just take that passage you sighted and see who actually must have been the “pope” of the Apostles.
Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Well, well what have we here? All the apostles discussed the matter but it was James, James mind you NOT Peter who was the “head dog”, the pope as Catholics are want to say. “As it always has” ey? You guys are just too funny.