Talk:Vix pervenit

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Date	Process	Result
December 23, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
May 15, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 17, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Vix Pervenit, an encyclical promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV (pictured) in 1745, condemned the charging of interest on loans as "illicit and usurious"?

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Nice little article, but I note a couple things in the lead. Might be good to explain why something addressed to the bishops of Italy might not be considered ex cathedra, so that people don't have to follow the link and figure it out. Also it might be a slight POV to say that the RCC "retreated from actively enforcing its social teachings in the financial sphere". Aren't there any other theories about this than backpedalling? Later in the article, this sentence was a bit complicated: "In 1830—following the widespread acceptance of the Napoleonic code, which allowed interest, throughout Europe— with the approval of Pope Pius VIII, the Inquisition of Rome, distinguished the doctrine of usury from the practice of usury, decreeing that confessors should no longer disturb the latter." Could this be split into two or three sentences. Gimmetrow 21:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of "VIx Pervenit"

Can an English translation of the Latin phrase be provided? -Fsotrain⁰⁹ 22:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC) "It hardly reaches," although "pervenit" is a transitive verb and cannot be used without an object, so it does not make sense unless the whole sentence is stated, which could entirely change its meaning. In Latin, words cannot generally be translated out of the context of the sentence in which they are used.[reply]