What doesn't fit under morals and faith?

[fakename]

It seems that the magisterium can teach on anything and everything since everything has some connection to faith and morals. For instance, the church could teach under this heading that israel had to exist or else jesus couldn’t exist but that would invalidate the faith, so obviously the church could teach that israel had to exist. Also, the church could teach on prudential matters too since prudence is a virtue, but the church is authorized to teach about morality and faith, so even prudential matters can be subject to church intervention.

Obviously though the above is wrong so I’m asking, why am I wrong? What doesn’t fit under faith and morals?

 

[Ron_Conte]

It seems that the magisterium can teach on anything and everything since everything has some connection to faith and morals. For instance, the church could teach under this heading that israel had to exist or else jesus couldn’t exist but that would invalidate the faith, so obviously the church could teach that israel had to exist. Also, the church could teach on prudential matters too since prudence is a virtue, but the church is authorized to teach about morality and faith, so even prudential matters can be subject to church intervention.

Obviously though the above is wrong so I’m asking, why am I wrong? What doesn’t fit under faith and morals?

The Magisterium may teach from natural law concerning everything that pertains to morality. The Magisterium teaches from Divine Revelation (Tradition and Scripture) on matters of faith and morals. The Magisterium cannot teach from any other source, nor on any other topic. So the Magisterium cannot decide which ideas in the theory of evolution are true or false, except when these overlap with Revelation or morals. The Magisterium cannot decide questions of science, math, and other disciplines, again, unless the answer is on moraly (such as the immorality of human cloning or other scientific techniques) or the answer is in Tradition or Scripture, such as that God created the universe, and humanity.

Also, the Magisterium cannot make judgments of the prudential order; this ability falls to the temporal authority of the Church. The Church has two types of authority, the spiritual teaching authority, and the temporal authority.