The created-grace controversy raised by certain Eastern Orthodox polemicists makes no sense unless it equivocates on the word “grace.”

Catholics just obviously do not believe that grace is created in the sense in which it would be impious to call grace created. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the self-communication of the Trinity are uncreated.

But grace also signifies the created effect of that uncreated divine gift in the soul: the real sanctification, healing, elevation, and deification of man. If that is denied, then the objection becomes unintelligible, because if there is no created effect in man, then nothing actually happens to man by way of grace.