BREAKING: The “Deposit of Faith” is BACK

 … not that it ever really went away.

From Leo XIV’s catechesis delivered at today’s general audience in Rome:

“The apostle Paul repeatedly exhorts his disciple and collaborator Timothy: “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you” (1Tm ; cf. 2Tm1:12-14). The dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum echoes this Pauline text when it says: “Sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of God, committed to the Church”, interpreted by the “living teaching office of the Church, whose authority is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ” (no. 10). “Deposit” is a term that, in its original meaning, is juridical in nature and imposes on the depositary the duty to preserve the content, which in this case is the faith, and to transmit it intact.

“The “deposit” of the Word of God is still in the hands of the Church and all of us, in our various ecclesial ministries, must continue to preserve it in its integrity, as a lodestar for our journey through the complexity of history and existence.”

N. B. Preserve the entire deposit of faith is its integrity!

Full text: https://www.osvnews.com/full-text-pope-leo-xivs-jan-28-2026-general-audience/