Pope Pius V on Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Through baptism, as the ordinary means
By this we are given to understand that to those who are baptised are imparted the gifts of the Holy Spirit, that to them are opened the gates of heaven.
THE POSITION
Through baptism. The catechism reads Christ's own baptism, where the heavens opened and the Spirit came as a dove, as a sign of what every baptism gives, and says each of the baptised receives "by the interior operation of the Holy Ghost" the gifts shown there. Article VIII calls the grace of justification the grace that "signs us with the Holy Spirit of promise." The quoted sentence speaks of the Spirit's gifts rather than his indwelling in so many words, which is why the cell leans.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
6 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 Indwelling of the Holy Spirit", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/indwelling (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/indwelling).