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Council of Vienne, 1311-1312

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475. 5. That any intellectual nature in its own self is naturally blessed, and that the soul does not need the light of glory raising it to see God and to enjoy Him beatifically.

476. 6. That it is characteristic of the imperfect man to exercise himself in acts of virtue, and the perfect soul gives off virtues by itself.

477. 7. That a woman's kiss, since nature does not incline to this, is a mortal sin; but the carnal act, since nature inclines to this, is not a sin, especially when the one exercising it is tempted.

478. 8. That in the elevation of the body of Jesus Christ they ought not to arise nor to show reverence to it, declaring that it would be characteristic of the imperfection in them, if from the purity and depth of their contemplations they should descend to such a degree as to think about other things regarding the minister [other text, mystery] or the sacrament of the Eucharist or the passion of the humanity of Christ.

A judgment: We with the approval of the Sacred Council condemn and disapprove completely that sect together with its past errors, restraining more strictly lest anyone in the future hold, approve, or defend them.

Usury1

[From the edict "Ex gravi ad nos"]

479. If anyone shall fall into that error, so that he obstinately presumes to declare that it is not a sin to exercise usury, we decree that he must be punished as a heretic.

The Errors of Peter John Olivi (The Wounds of Christ, the Union of the Soul and Body, and Baptism2)

[From the edict "De Summa Trinitate et fide catholica"]

480. (The incarnation). Clinging firmly to the "foundation" of the Catholic faith "against which," as the Apostle testifies "no one is able to place anything different" [cf. I Cor. 3:11], we openly acknowledge with holy mother Church that the only begotten Son of God in all these things in which God the Father is, existing eternally together with the

  1. CIC Clem. V, 5: Frdbg II 1184; Rcht II 1101; Msi XXV 411 D; Hrd VII 1360 A; cf. Hfl VI 546; Bar(Th) ad 1312 n. 21 (23, 523 b). ↩

  2. CIC Clem. I, 1: Frdbg II 1133 f.; Rcht II, 1057 f.; Msi XXV 410 E f.; Hrd VII 1359 C f.; cf. Hfl VI 536 f.; Bar(Th) ad 1312 n. 19 f. (23, 522 a ff.).—Peter of John Olivi, O.Fr.M., born 1248 in Sérignan in Gaul. For his errors on the soul see Quaracchi edition (B. Jansen, S.J.) 1922-1926, tom. II p. 104 ff., 136 ff., 302 ff. He died with a most beautiful profession of faith published March 14, 1298 (or 1297) [Hrt II³ 404 ff.]. Cf. Theol. Quartalschrift (Tübingen) 113 (1932) 142 ff. [I. Koch]. ↩