Today's highlights:
Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as written under the breath of the Holy Spirit...
Holy Tradition transmits the Word of God in its entirety...
As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted relies on both Scripture and Tradition...
The Tradition comes from the Apostles as handed to them by Jesus and then handed on...
The New Testament itself is demonstrates the process of a living Tradition...
Tradition is to be distinguished from various theological, disciplinary, liturgical or devotional traditions...
The Apostles entrusted the "Sacred deposit" of faith, Scripture and Tradition, to the whole of the Church...
There should be remarkable harmony between the bishops and the faithful...
The living teaching office of the Church is tasked with giving authentic interpretation of the Word of God...
This teaching office is the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Pope...
The MAgisterium is not superior to the Word of God, but is its servant...
The faithful receive the teachings and directives from their pastors...
Taken from paragraphs 80-87
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