l_english:

 catholic_religion:1 "Catholic"
 catholic_religion_adj:1 "Catholic"
 catholic_religion_adherent:1 "Catholic"
 catholic_religion_adherent_plural:1 "Catholics"
 catholic_religion_desc:1 "Catholic faiths, either the Roman Catholic Churches and its Rites, or Independent Catholic Churches such as the Sevillian Church, all claim apostolic succession via Papacy from Saint Peter, who was promised the Keys of Heaven by Jesus Christ. Catholic Churches are always led by the Pope, who unquestionably commands the full authority of the whole Church, all of its priests, and all of its rulers."
 
 mariavite:0 "Mariavite Catholic Church"
 mariavite_adj:0 "Mariavite"
 mariavite_adherent:0 "Mariavite"
 mariavite_adherent_plural:0 "Mariavites"
 mariavite_desc:0 "The Mariavite Catholic Church traces its roots to Maria Franciszka, a pre-Event Polish noblewoman and visionary. It is said that during the chaos of the end times, she succesfully swayed Jesus into giving the world another chance, and descended from the Heavens to aid mankind through miracles and counsel. With the loss of Rome to infidels and the rest of the world to barbarity, monks and zealots of the faith preached the need for a return to the examples of humility set by Maria of Nazareth as the Mother of God and Maria Franciszka as the Bride of Christ. Once the age of strife finally ended and the legate of the restored Roman Pope crossed the mountains into Central Europe, he was shocked to find that the Primas who greeted him was a woman. His refusal to negotiate with 'a pagan in bishop's robes' cemented the divide between Rome and the Mariavites."
 mariavite_religious_head_title:0 "Prime Bishop"
 mariavite_religious_head_title_name:0 "Mariavite Church" 
 
 luminarian:0 "Luminarian Movement"
 luminarian_adj:0 "Luminarian"
 luminarian_adherent:0 "Luminarian"
 luminarian_adherent_plural:0 "Luminarians"
 luminarian_desc:0 "What started as a protest movement within the reformist Catholic academia soon turned into a thorn in the Church's side. The Luminarian Movement places little value in many of the Church's longest standing traditions, believing the Popes of the new era did not do nearly enough to prevent the slow decline of Catholicism. They are vehemently opposed to any tradition they view as backwards, advocating for the ordainment of female priests, greater inter-faith cooperation, and an end to holy wars and crusading. The ultimate goal of the Movement is to change the image of the Church into that of an organisation that heals and rebuilds, instead of one that sends its young to die for the faith."
 luminarian_religious_head_title:0 "WIP"
 luminarian_religious_head_title_name:0 "WIP"
 
 sebastianist:0 "Sebastianism"
 sebastianist_adj:0 "Sebastianist"
 sebastianist_adherent:0 "Sebastianist"
 sebastianist_adherent_plural:0 "Sebastianist"
 sebastianist_desc:0 "Old World legends describe the mythical rule of King Sebastian, who once commanded all the mightiest warriors of the Occident to war against invading heathens. One day, however, the King rode into battle, never to be seen again. While most dismiss this tale as being just an old legend, the Sebastianist faithful hold that King Sebastian was not merely felled in battle, but was called to ascend to Heaven in order to fulfil his role as the Son of God and the prophesied Messiah. It is said that the King will return to save the world in its darkest hour, descending from Heaven on a foggy day. With the support of his loyal followers, he will herald the Quinto Império, the next kingdom of God on Earth."
 sebastianist_religious_head_title:0 "WIP"
 sebastianist_religious_head_title_name:0 "WIP"

 celtic:0 "Irish Catholic Church"
 celtic_adj:0 "Celtic"
 celtic_adherent:0 "Celtic Catholic"
 celtic_adherent_plural:0 "Celtic Catholics"
 celtic_desc:0 "The Irish Catholic Church was founded shortly after the restoration of the Holy See, declared Sui Iuris by the pope to minister to all remaining Catholics of the British Isles due to their distance from the Pope, as well as to reinforce the Church in Britain ahead of the rise of the occultist British Empire. Though still in total communion with Rome, the Patriarch of Armargh oversees all temporal matters of the Church in Britain, while other more spiritual matters eventually find their way into the Pope's hands in Rome."

 illuminated:0 "Illuminated Lodges"
 illuminated_adj:0 "Illuminated"
 illuminated_adherent:0 "Illuminated Catholic"
 illuminated_adherent_plural:0 "Illuminated Catholics"
 illuminated_desc:0 "Believing the world to have fallen under the dominion of demons since the Event, initiates of the Illuminated Lodges seek to destroy the obscurant influence of Lucifer and his horde over mankind. Until this is done by removing the current servant of Satan in Rome and restoring a true Vicar of Christ, God is unable to intercede on Earth. Due to this dire situation, Illuminati take a very pragmatic view of demonology, turning a blind eye to more manipulative solutions if exorcism should fail. This is with the understanding that believers will use dark magic to smite all forms of hellish power, furthering the cause of Christendom’s enlightenment. However, to outsiders, this has drawn accusations of demon worship, despite it being antithetical to the faith’s goals."

 penitente:0 "Order of Penitents"
 penitente_adj:0 "Penitente"
 penitente_adherent:0 "Penitent"
 penitente_adherent_plural:0 "Penitents"
 penitente_desc:0 "Penitent Orders are an ancient Spanish tradition, though many of them have since grown disillusioned with the Catholic Church. Rejecting both the Sevillian and Roman papacies as corrupt and misguided, the Penitentes preach that all of humanity is full of guilt and undeserving of salvation. To punish the pre-Event world for blindly following the generals of the Antichrist to war, the Lord sent unto them the Event, and the streets of Europe ran with the blood of the suffering. Greatly disappointed by his children, God's only order was that the remaining humans must repent their sins and the sins of their ancestors, sentencing them to unending penance. As the Lord is no longer willing to speak through any single holy man, the Penitents are organised into orders of flagellants, each member given the holy duty of suffering until absolution."

 cadaverist:0 "Cadaverist Catholic Church"
 cadaverist_adj:0 "Cadaverist"
 cadaverist_adherent:0 "Cadaverist"
 cadaverist_adherent_plural:0 "Cadaverists"
 cadaverist_desc:0 "The Cadaverist Church is a schismatic Catholic movement that believes the last antediluvian Pope was approached by the angel Gabriel during the Event, who preserved his mind within his body. They hold that His Holiness the Preserved is still alive to this day, and will some day be restored in flesh to lead the true Catholic Church, untouched by the Event. Until then, he communicates with the high-ranking members of his clergy through divine apparitions, and they rule the Church in his place as the secretive [Concept('neow_cadaverist_synod','Cadaverist Synod')|E]."
 cadaverist_religious_head_title:0 "Ecclesiarch"
 cadaverist_religious_head_title_name:0 "The Synod"


 fraticelli:0 "Fraticelli Catholic Church"
 fraticelli_adj:0 "Neo-Fraticelli"
 fraticelli_adherent:0 "Neo-Fraticelli"
 fraticelli_adherent_plural:0 "Neo-Fraticelli"
 fraticelli_desc:0 "The Fraticelli, or the 'Little Brethren', are a movement within Catholicism seeking to increase the devotion of the Church towards asceticism and poverty. Inspired by their medieval namesake, the Fraticelli are violently opposed to hoarding and displays of wealth by the Church, as well as excessive opulence among the populace. They believe that Mammon, the King of Greed, grew so powerful within the Old World that he usurped Lucifer as the ruler of Hell, fueled by the infinite greed of antediluvian plutocracies. As Mammon intentionally and brutally brought forth the fall of the Old World, the Fraticelli view greed as the gravest of sins."

 sevillian:0 "Sevillian Catholic Church"
 sevillian_adj:0 "Sevillian"
 sevillian_adherent:0 "Sevililan Catholic"
 sevillian_adherent_plural:0 "Sevillian Catholics"
 sevillian_desc:0 "A traditionalist rejection of the degenerate city of Rome, the Sevillians are defined by their recognition of a new Pope in Seville. The church traces its history back to just before the [Concept('neow_the_event','Event')|E], when the man who would become the first Sevillian Pope was given a vision by the Archangel Raphael that he must get the Vicar of Christ to depart from that 'new Sodom', or else face the wrath of God. When this warning was ignored, the world was punished. Long since then, the [Concept('neow_sevillian_church','Sevillian Papacy')|E] has come to develop a canon that rejects many of the mistakes made by the Roman Vicar, especially those of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Further, the Sevillians have upheld long standing practices since abandoned by the Roman Church, from the allowance of indulgences in serious cases, to the prohibition on clerical marriage and the ordination of women."
 sevillian_religious_head_title:0 "Pope"
 sevillian_religious_head_title_name:0 "Sevillian Papacy"

 roman_catholic:0 "Roman Catholic Church"
 roman_catholic_adj:0 "Roman"
 roman_catholic_adherent:0 "Catholic"
 roman_catholic_adherent_plural:0 "Catholics"
 roman_catholic_desc:0 "The Roman Catholic Church survived through the [Concept('neow_the_event','Event')|E], like it did through so many other crises, great and small. It did not, however, come out unscathed. Though the state of the Church during the Event is murky at best, the Holy See was officially restored in the Year 2100, with the Keys of Heaven being given to Saint Adalbertus, the first legitimate successor to pre-Event Pope John Paul II. The Church has had many losses, losing large swathes of territory to pagans, heretics, and idolators, as well as suffering from the [Concept('neow_sevillian_church','Sevillian Schism')|E], where the faithful of Spain flocked to a rival Pope in Seville. Since then, the true Holy See has adapted to the post-Event world accordingly, allowing the marriage of priests and the appointment of female deacons to make up for the massive loss of life during the Event, as well as recognising a variety of local rites and the celebration of Vernacular Mass. Now, the Church may finally, for the first time in a long time, have the upper hand against its neighbours, and only time may tell if it will survive in this new changing world, as it has for countless millennia."
 roman_religious_head_title:0 "Pope"
 roman_religious_head_title_name:0 "The Papacy"

 teutonic:0 "Teutonic Rite"
 teutonic_adj:0 "Teutonic"
 teutonic_adherent:0 "Teutonic Catholic"
 teutonic_adherent_plural:0 "Teutonic Catholics"
 teutonic_desc:0 "Following the catastrophic collapse of the Catholic Church in Germany in the early days of the post-Event, much of its remaining Catholic population was either killed or driven into exile by hostile pagans. Recognising the perility of their situation, the Holy See approved the Teutonic Order taking over the Church in Germany as its own autonomous (sui iuris) rite, administered from their headquarters in Vienna. The Grand Master oversees most of its dioceses as a Patriarch would, while still in full communion with the Pope in Rome. Mass is generally performed in German, and many parishes, especially border ones, are directly administered by the Order itself."


 iberian:0 "Iberian Catholic Church"
 iberian_adj:0 "Iberian"
 iberian_adherent:0 "Iberian Catholic"
 iberian_adherent_plural:0 "Iberian Catholics"
 iberian_desc:0 "With the Sevillian Schism splitting the Catholic Church into two, and the newly founded Sevillian Church asserting its control over much of Iberia, the remaining Catholics loyal to the Pope in Rome were declared sui iuris, led by the Patriarch of Lisbon. Surrounded on all sides and mostly isolated from Rome, the Church in Iberia chooses to do nothing proactive about the growing threat in Seville. Instead, they hold that by staying peaceful and defensive, the Sevillians' pride will eventually become their doom."

 greek_catholic:0 "Greek Catholic Church"
 greek_catholic_adj:0 "Greek Catholic"
 greek_catholic_adherent:0 "Greek Catholic"
 greek_catholic_adherent_plural:0 "Greek Catholics"
 greek_catholic_desc:0 "With the coming of the [Concept('neow_the_event','Event')|E] the Papacy quickly adopted a policy of elevating regional congregation under its umbrella to patriarchal authority, somthing the Greek Catholics of the Carpathians had been petitioning for for some time, being already a 'sui juris church in their own right within Catholicism. Lead by the Patriarch of Uzhhorod, the church has been able to survive and to an extent thrive under the twin protection of the Nistrian Empire and the Roman Papacy, despite sporadic hostility from the former and distance from the latter."

