“Rome had nothing to say about it.”
Lol, ya think? They reacted to it, being caught not meeting the needs of the Christian masses.
You wrote:
“Lol, ya think? They reacted to it, being caught not meeting the needs of the Christian masses.”
They did not react to it. Rome had nothing to say about vernacular translations. Never did and really still doesn’t - other than expecting orthodox ones. It is up to individual Catholics, national hierarchies or consortiums to translate scriptures.