Catholicism Wiki:Authority and status guide
Catholicism Wiki distinguishes grades of magisterial teaching from canon law, liturgical discipline, approved devotion, theological synthesis, and historical evidence. These are different kinds of classification, not competing positions on one ladder.
Grades of magisterial teaching
Divine and Catholic faith. A truth revealed by God and proposed as such by the Church's solemn Magisterium or ordinary and universal Magisterium.
Firm and definitive assent. A truth definitively proposed because it is necessarily connected with revelation or required to guard and expound the deposit of faith.
Religious submission of intellect and will. An authoritative but non-definitive exercise of the authentic Magisterium, received according to its subject, wording, intention, and weight.
Other kinds of authority and evidence
Governance and practice. Binding canon law, liturgical law, or ecclesiastical regulation. A discipline can be reformed even when it safeguards unchangeable doctrine.
Permitted, not universally obligatory. A practice received or approved by the Church that assists Christian life without adding to the deposit of faith.
Weight follows its sources. A school, explanation, or synthesis that may faithfully express doctrine without itself being a distinct act of the Magisterium.
Judged by evidence. Historical, institutional, or factual material whose truth depends on evidence rather than a grade of magisterial authority.
Reading article flags
An article displays one compact status row beneath its title. It shows at most one teaching grade: the strongest present in the article. It does not transfer that grade to every sentence. Distinctly prefixed flags identify discipline, devotion, theological synthesis, and historical evidence without repeating status rails throughout the article. See Grades of Magisterial Teaching and Theological Status for the governing distinctions. Discipline appears separately because a binding canon or liturgical rule is not dogma. Historical dates remain historical claims even inside an article about dogma.