Acta Sanctæ Sedis

[Gunnland]

Acta Sanctæ Sedis
Capitoline City, Tibur . September 11th . "Urbi et orbi".
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The Independent Tiburian Newspaper of Record . Since 1862​

Stephanus IV: "All We Can Do Now Is Pray for Peace"
Holy Father Foresees "End of the System of Nations"
Giuseppe Di Preta

The rising tide of blood in Meridian Europe is navigable only by the most barbaric vessels. News that ballistic missiles rained indiscriminately upon Augsburg shook Tiburians; all of us, I think, lost a false sense of security that day. The City of Emperors has historically been the "Second Tibur", the seat of imperial power in Meridian Europe after the fall of the ancient empire.

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From the undisclosed secure location to which he has been moved, Pope Stephanus IV offered an interview to Tiburian state television yesterday. "For sixty-five years we have wondered with morbid fascination how the next world war would be. How much more anonymous, inhuman, cowardly, and abominable could 'conventional' - and yes, they call it conventional! - could warfare become? The faithful in Augsburg have been the first witnesses of this human tragedy."

"The system of paranoiac and insanely armed nations must not survive the end of this conflict," said His Holiness with ponderous deliberateness. "Is Augsburg a sign? Perhaps. The time for cautiousness is over. Godwilling this conflict will secure a new and lasting peace for Meridian Europe, a new Charlemagne."

The pope said the nation-state system had outlived its context, "one of crossbows, canon, and muskets." The new world order, he said, would require a return to the internationalism of the imperial system that prevailed before the creation of nation-states in the 14th and 15th centuries. Although he hinted at Augsburg many times, the Holy Father did not explicitly name who, among the powers vying for control of Meridian Europe, would be the appropriate temporal representative of Christ's kingship on earth.

"The Church shall have the twelve hundred-year-old imperial crown and miter ready."
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[Gunnland]

Acta Sanctæ Sedis
Capitoline City, Tibur . September 17th . "Urbi et orbi".
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The Independent Tiburian Newspaper of Record . Since 1862​

Obstfelder Convicted for Impersonating Bishop
Von Haaksbergen Summons Oelarian Leadership to Tibur
Coemgein B. Hart

Something truly remarkable has happened. We should have expected this. It is not that the first convocation of the Germanic Inquisition since 1568 delivered its expected verdict, convicting Sigbjorn Obstfelder of impersonating a clergyman, and deposing him as the ruler of Olmo Lung Ring. Nor even that the intersectionalist leadership of the country was swept aside by the Church as "conspirators" and likewise sentenced to five years' imprisonment each. Rather, it is that the cardinal-camerlengo, Middelhuis Cardinal von Haaksbergen, has summoned the leaders of the sparsely-populated mountain country to Tibur to choose new leadership under Curial supervision.

The summons was issued to Bishop Hippolyte Frison, the bishop of Yungdrung Gutsak and the national bishop of Olmo Lung Ring. "A self-styled intersectionalist revolutionary, Mr. Obstfelder came to power in the same conspiracy that reorganized the Great Council of the Oelarian nation. To reconstitute the government of this nation, I invite all heads-of-clans, tjaldurs, the Lord Provost, the commanders, and the Abbot Mimir to Tibur on the twenty-fourth of September to elect a new Lord Rigpa."

The Inquisition was terse as to why it demanded the Great Council would convene in the Eternal City, rather than in its traditional meeting spot, the Freehold. The camerlengo said, "The rigpa is, after all, an auxiliary bishop of the Church. We have a stake, and we are the high court that has decided Sigbjorn Obstfelder was an impostor."

Olmo Lung Ring has recently had an extraordinary economic recovery, although some say it came at the price of disproportionate influence of the powerful Skycommand, or air force, in day-to-day politics. One can only presume these leaders have struck a deal with the Church to oust and replace the country's leftists.

On September 24, the Great Council will convene in Tibur to elect the next Oelarian leader. We shall see then.
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