PIUS IV., CREED OF. The dogmatic formula drawn up by a commission of members of the Council of Trent as a summary of its decisions, and promulgated by Pope Pius IV, at the end of 1564 in the hull In saerosaneta. Its formal acceptance is required of all priests and teachers in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as of all converts to that communion. It begins by em bodying the Nicene Creed. and proceeds to the later more elaborate definitions. Successive ar ticles declare belief in apostolical and ecclesias tical traditions and all other observances and constitutions of the Holy Roman Church; the Holy Scriptures according to that sense which the Church has held and does bold; seven sacra ments of the new law instituted by Christ and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not of every one the definitions of the Council of Trent concerning original sin and justifica tion; the doctrine of a true, proper, and propi tiatory sacrifice in the mass, transubstantiation, and the reception of Christ whole and entire under either kind; a the souls de tained in which are helped by the prayers of the faithful; the veneration and invocation of the saints reigning together with Christ. and the
veneration of their relies and of sacred images; the power and use of indulgences; and the posi tion of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother and mistress of all churches. It concludes with a promise of fidelity to this faith and of obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor to Saint Peter. Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ. Its full text may be found in Schaff, Creeds of Christen dom (New York, 1877-78).