Pope Pius V on Natural / general revelation

None of the stances fits without misdescribing the figure

Every listed stance was tested against the sources, and each asserts something the figure does not. The reasoning is recorded in full, and it is the content.

THE POSITION

No listed stance fits. The quotation is about "human wisdom", set against faith. The catechism grants what Romans 1:20 says, that God's invisible things are "clearly seen" from creation, and that unaided reason can at length reach a First Cause. But it frames the limit as one of difficulty rather than suppression: reason "advances slowly", reaches God only "after long and laborious investigation", and could never have known most of what leads to salvation, so revelation is needed even for truths reason can reach. That is neither `clear-suppressed`, which places the failure in the will, nor `denied`, nor `inclusivist`.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

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.