Pope Pius V on Canon of the Old Testament

Wider canon — deuterocanonical books included

THE POSITION

No canon list was found in the sections of the catechism read. It works inside the canon the Council of Trent had fixed in 1546, which included the deuterocanonical books, and it quotes Ecclesiasticus as an authority for its teaching ("Hence we read in Ecclesiasticus", Article VII). That shows the wider canon in use, not a ruling on it, so the cell is `established` and not quoted. The Breviary (1568) and Missal (1570) he issued also read from these books, but neither was read in this pass.

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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.