Alton is where the Lincoln-Douglas debates happened.
The magisterium of the Catholic Church is the church 's authority or office to establish its own authentic teachings .. Catholic Church. Catholic Church. That authority is vested uniquely in the pope and the bishops , under the premise that they are in communion with the correct and true teachings of the faith .. pope. pope. communion. Communion ( Christian ). Sacred scripture and sacred tradition `` make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God , which is entrusted to the Church '' , and the magisterium is not independent of this , since `` all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed is derived from this single deposit of faith . ''. Sacred scripture. Bible. sacred tradition. sacred tradition. divinely revealed. Revelation