Another debate for next year is how we might produce a guide without the results of official teaching quality inspections for university departments, some of which are now eight years old.
When sects were defined as heretical Waldenses, Cathari, and others because of their repudiation of Roman Catholic concepts of Christian essence, they had to go into hiding or were pushed into enclaves beyond the reach of the custodians of official teaching.
My book is next accused of incongruity, representing Catholic doctrine by way of "official" teaching but ranging "freely" over the three major Buddhist traditions because Buddhist authoritative statements are "hard to come by" (p. 239).
The same combination of loyalty to official teaching, with prudence in its application, guided his response in 1995 to the homosexual pressure group, OutRage.
In no way does this decision run counter to either the spirit or the letter of the Second Vatican Council, a council that condemned abortion, as well as "unlawful contraceptive practices," and that required from every Catholic a loyal submission of will and intellect to the official teaching of the church (Gaudium et Spes, 47, 51, and see Lumen Gentium, 25).
"However, a more common phenomenon is confusion about the teaching of the magisterium". The magisterium is the official teaching of the church.
In Tibet and Xinjiang, some ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs say the use of Mandarin as the official teaching language in schools has weakened the fluency of the local languages among many young people.
His aggressive stance against abortion rights, which, like the official teaching of the church, extends to opposition to the use of birth control, helped him to win the endorsement of CatholicVote.org, a Catholic anti-choice group, shortly after his strong showing in Iowa.
And despite the apparent liberalism of his speeches, the official teaching remains mostly intact: abortion is still "absolute evil", homosexual acts a sin, gay marriage firmly opposed.
The catechism, or official teaching, of the Catholic Church states that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" and that people attracted to the opposite sex must remain celibate.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network is the official teaching partner of the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R).
