He vigorously persued heresy, which leads men to hell. It’s a duty of charity. The articles admits he went a bit too far, but no saint has ever been perfect.The “saint of the day” for today, April 30, is Saint Pope Pius V. In my opinion, he is no saint! He was the Grand Inquisitor of the Church. How many people were tortured at his order!? Why does the Church consider such a man a saint?
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It is hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt and believe in their good intentions when they come to a subforum for traditional catholics and start a contentious thread such as this.The “saint of the day” for today, April 30, is Saint Pope Pius V. In my opinion, he is no saint! He was the Grand Inquisitor of the Church. How many people were tortured at his order!? Why does the Church consider such a man a saint?
catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5515
I don’t know but that list of anathemas expressed by the Council of Trent would certainly be much greater than it is had they known the future. By the way, none of those anathemas has ever been officially abrogated by the Church.
They must have moved him in the new calendar. The Traditional Calendar is St. Catherine of Siena, another wonderful Dominican. From memory, Pius V was the pope when the Battle of Lepanto occurred and he had called for Rosaries to be recited for help in the coming battle. I am thinking that he also gave the Spanish people a dispensation on account of their stalwart participation, to name their children the name of the Lord, and that is why only among the Spanish do we ever see the name, Jesus.The “saint of the day” for today, April 30, is Saint Pope Pius V. In my opinion, he is no saint! He was the Grand Inquisitor of the Church. How many people were tortured at his order!? Why does the Church consider such a man a saint?
catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5515
Subsequent popes made adjustments for the Easter Triduum that better coincided with a workaday world that didn’t exist in 1570 and also other minor changes, especially additions to the Calendar. Pope Pius wasn’t forbidding the promulgation of other missals, such as that of Pope Paul VI, but one wonders, if not for his strong words regarding perpetuity of that missal, if the faithful would have held out, or if the Holy Father would have realized the continuing privilege in the Roman Rite to say what is sometimes called the Tridentine Mass (because of its appearance immediately following the Council of Trent).
Yup. A Man of Thunder. St. Pius V, ora pro nobis.
He would be perfect for our times. to many heresies roaming around and destroying souls due to lack of people willing to stand up for the Faith. i like what fr. Casey said the other day, “Catholics have become cowards.”The “saint of the day” for today, April 30, is Saint Pope Pius V. In my opinion, he is no saint! He was the Grand Inquisitor of the Church. How many people were tortured at his order!? Why does the Church consider such a man a saint?
catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5515
I agree. In the calendar used by the EF, his feast day is May 5.
Prophetic words. And never, I think, have they been more true than in the case of legalized abortion. Catholics caved on contraceptives, and abortion was not long in following. And in the wake of legalized abortion, other horrors, like euthanasia, are becoming acceptable. Since the Catholic Church condemns all these in the strongest terms, how could they become acceptable in society except that we Catholics have been lying down on the job?
Six Catholics sit on the Supreme Court. Can we stand another?
I believe that we all know the answer…Might I ask the OP why he posted this thread here, where it has nothing to do with the theme of this forum? Or do I already know the answer?
Hmmm, let me think … no more than Saul of Tarsus (St Paul), is an educated guess, after all, there’s only so much damage any one man can do.The “saint of the day” for today, April 30, is Saint Pope Pius V. In my opinion, he is no saint! He was the Grand Inquisitor of the Church. How many people were tortured at his order!? Why does the Church consider such a man a saint?
catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5515
Sorry just one correction All Saints except The Virgin Mary. She never sinned and ofcourse she is not like any other Saint.Hmmm, let me think … no more than Saul of Tarsus (St Paul), is an educated guess, after all, there’s only so much damage any one man can do.
I suppose we need to expose the evils of the Church that canonises persecuters of the faithful like Saul/Paul, along with Christ-deniers like Simon Peter, not to mention shameless women of low morals like Mary Madgalene.
Yes, all this sarcasm has a point. A saint is not someone who is perfect or free of sin for their entire life - in fact it CANNOT be, since no-one IS remotely perfect or free of sin for their entire life.
All saints have been sinners as well, in their time. Moreover quite a few have been sinners on a grand scale, such as St Paul or St Mary Magdalene, and famously St Augustine of Hippo. There’s a saying ‘a saint is not someone who never sins, it’s someone who gets up again and repents each and every time he has sinned’.
You and I have far less knowledge of the life - and soul - of Pius V than the scholars who carefully examined in minute detail every aspect of his life before he was declared a saint. And that includes the one who was Devil’s Advocate - whose job was to carefully scrutinise Pius’ life and place on record every POSSIBLE occurrence in his life that suggested that Pius was NOT a man who was saintly.
All of the evidences for and against are a matter of public record - and still those who examined the cause for canonisation of Pius were overwhelmingly convinced that he did in fact lead a heroically virtuous life.