Pope Pius V on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
While we thus acknowledge His twofold Nativity; we believe Him to be one Son, because His divine and human natures meet in one Person.
THE POSITION
One person in two natures. Article II confesses a twofold nativity and refuses to let it make two sons: the natures "meet in one Person." The same section quotes John 1:1 for his deity.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Michele Ghislieri, a Dominican friar and inquisitor, was pope from 1566 to 1572 and carried the Council of Trent's decrees into practice. Under his authority came the Roman Catechism (1566), the reformed Breviary (1568) and Missal (1570), and the bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus (1567) on the teaching of Michael Baius; he also named Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. He wrote little theology of his own, so this entry rests on what he promulgated: the Roman Catechism, read in the McHugh and Callan translation, a commission's work issued by his order, and the 1567 bull in Deferrari's translation of Denzinger.
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"Pope Pius V on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/christology).