Pope Pius V on Justification
By infused grace, mediated sacramentally
Our souls are replenished with divine grace, by which we are rendered just and children of God and are made heirs to eternal salvation.
THE POSITION
Justification is the infusion of grace through the sacraments, baptism first. The baptismal section calls grace "a divine quality inherent in the soul", accompanied by virtues "divinely infused into the soul along with grace", and the section on the sacraments in general says that in the font "His grace is infused into our souls." The just are made just, not only declared so.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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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 Justification", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/justification (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/justification).