Addressing Religiosity in the Senate

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IMPERIAL DIET

11th of Horen’s Calling, 1752
 

Statement from the Office of the President pro tempore

 

To His Holiness Pontian III and the Holy Mother Church,

 

     The Imperial Senate conveys its profound regards to the sentiments and admonition concerning the state of governance in our current affairs in the recently published in the Septimus Aurea Bulla. Indeed, it is an important focal point of reflection as we continue to uphold our oath to protect the cultural integrity of our society. In the spirit of our debates, I assert our conscientiousness about the fate of the legislature and the role of the Church in the Affairs of State. As we debate and craft legislation for the entirety of the Empire, I echo the virtues of Exalted Horen as the fundamental basis of our collective conscience. Indeed, it is no vacuous accident that the chamber within Varoche Hall, the heart of Imperial federalism, displays above the dais the prominent saints of Adrian of Leuvaarden, Saint Henry Otto of Alban, and Saint Johannes of Aesculus. Under the patronage of these pious examples in the tradition of our holy Church, the Senate responsibly and virtuously wields its legislative authority under the models of the holy men who have illuminated a path before us.

     In my opening addresses to each session of the Senate since I took the Chair, I have echoed my wish that the Senate be a virtuous institution that heeds the call of our faith and the universal vocation that all Canonists be temperate and morally upright. Moreover, we are greatly aware that our actions and our decisions hold the gravitas of law that impacts the entirety of the faithful. We affirm our commitment to uphold the duty of the Imperial government where we swear by the Holy Scrolls, to legislate and represent our respective provinces. As such, I seek to impart the following actions with the authority vested in me as President pro tempore of the Imperial Senate to be imposed with immediacy:
 

1.  I shall issue a mandate that the Imperial Senate swiftly designate, at the discretion of His Holiness and the Curia thereof, a Chaplain of the Imperial Senate, whose role shall be to advise colleagues on matters of faith and to lead the chamber to prayer prior to the sittings of the House.
2. A reading of a bill pertaining to injuries against the faith to further discuss the gravity of actions contrary to the Holy Canonist Church. 

 

I pray this statement is met with your concurrence as a first step in the right path. In the spirit of collegiality and goodwill of this correspondence, and in faithful obedience to the Testaments of the Exalted, I commend this missive to the Holy See. 

 

 

Signed,

Imperial Senator from the Kingdom of Haense, Chairman of the Imperial Senate Committee on Justice, President pro tempore

 

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The morning was bright as the wigged official and his two short, ginger companions rode the boat cross the Lake Helena. Strutted along by Akritian boat-hands and their whitewood rows, they danced across in the waters in smooth pace. Though the time sailing still bored the tall, old one, whose powder smelt too strongly, and he began to read an assortment of letters, which both heartened yet troubled him. Reaching the shore after two hours, the elder Callahan and twins Malcolm and Patrick Bray, of Brays of Nobleton of the Clan Bray of that ilk, they departed off, after which Mister Callahan paid the captain three gold crowns, before looking towards the duo;

 

“I’m pro-Senate and anti-Church.” declares the senior Senator from Kaedrin.

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Senator Vivaca Rutledge sighs...

“We should stop appeasing them, really. They’re going to keep asking for more!”