AN ECCLESIASTICAL ULTIMATUM

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AN ECCLESIASTICAL ULTIMATUM

 

As promulgated by His Eminence, Ide Cardinal Ves, Auditor of the Tribunal of the Church of the Canon

 

Decreed the 5^th of Harren’s Folly, 1743.

 

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To Daniel de Alence and his Nominal Templars of Arjen’s Cross

 

There is something minor to be praised in the pious forming a nation of their own, and I praise your zeal. It is clearly known what Canon philosophy, certainly in agreement with natural reason, prescribes in this matter; for the flock to stand together against any threats to the faith, and to stand as one. Nevertheless, because of both warnings issued to your men and your conscious foregoing of them, it will be expedient to briefly issue an ultimatum.

 

Clearly, divine law, both that which is known by the light of reason and that which is revealed in the sacred scrolls, strictly forbids anyone, to either form an order professing to be Holy in nature without gaining the divine promulgated assent of the Pontiff. Further, it is forbidden for anyone to so purposefully kill or wound another Canonist man unless compelled to do so in self defense.  

 

In the very nature of drawing arms against another Canonist nation - whose ruler has in years past been fidei defensor of the Mother Church - there is plainly blind temerity and contempt for the life of fellow men of the Canon. 

There can be, therefore, no obscurity or doubt in anyone's mind that those who engage in battle as ‘templars of the faith’ and take upon themselves a double guilt, that of another Canonist's destruction and the deliberate risk of their own lives in their self-proclaimed cause as “templars” of the Mother Church.

 

If as to recant their claim of templars of the faith and profess to be schismatics or heretics, the following ultimatum will reply without regard;

 

It will be your duty to impress diligently upon the minds of your people this warning, that they not rashly follow false organisations of faith, nor allow themselves to be carried away by the judgments of shallow men to be thus dragged into war against their own Canonist brethren in their faux-nation of heretical pretenders of faith. 

 

If there is no reform of behaviour, resting upon the authority of Him whose pleasure it was to place us (though unequal to such a burden) upon this supreme justice-seat, we do shall of the fullness of our apostolic power declare the aforesaid Templars, the man known as Daniel de Alence, and all other titles non exhaustive that he so self-refers to be a heretic and favourer of heretics, and him and his adherents in the matters aforesaid to have incurred the sentence of excommunication and to be cut off from the unity of the Mother Church.

 

We humble pray GOD that he strengthen our common efforts with divine grace and that He kindly guide you into accepting our ultimatum and returning to the safety of His fold, for the integrity of morals and for Canon life.