Pope Pius V on the final state of the lost
Eternal conscious punishment
When, moreover, we reflect that this torment is to be eternal, we can see at once that the punishment of the damned includes every kind of suffering.
THE POSITION
Eternal conscious punishment. Article VII divides the sentence "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire" into the pain of loss, deprivation "forever of the light of the vision of God", and the pain of sense, felt through the senses, and insists the torment is eternal.
41 Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
29 OTHERS HOLD THIS
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 final state of the lost", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/final-state (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/final-state).