The Catholic Church
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The Catholic Church is headed by the Pope as the heir to the Throne of St. Peter.
Organization of the Roman Church
The Church divides Christendom into Provinces.
A Province consists of a Metropolitan Archdiocese and one or more other Dioceses. The archbishop of the metropolitan see is the Metropolitan of the province, that is its leader. However, there are individual dioceses that do not belong to any province, but are directly subject to the Holy See. There are also some archdioceses that are not metropolitan sees and some that are suffragan (subordinate) to another archdiocese.
Canon Law
Canon Law applies to members of the Church, which include students at university. It also applies to areas such as matrimony, inheirtances, and other obscure areas. Some key rulings are:
- The 1215 Lateran Council directed that rectors should live in their parishes or appoint a vicar with a stipend and freehold.
- Simony is the ecclesiastical crime of paying for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church, as well as the sale of spiritual authority: the sale of tithes, the taking of a fee for confession, absolution, marriage or burial, and the concealment of one in mortal sin or the reconcilement of an impenitent for the sake of gain.
Holy Orders
In 1223 the Pope recognised the Franciscan order.
Crusades
The 13th Century is the era of Crusades, when European powers were most active in their attempts to reclaim the Levant, stamp out heresy in Provence, and converting Slavic pagans in the north. Most of the Crusades have, are, or will happen in a magus' lifetime.
Holy Land Crusades
- Third Crusade (1187-1192)
- Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)
- Children's Crusade (1212)
- Fifth Crusade (1217-1221)
- Sixth Crusade (1228-1229)
- Seventh Crusade (1248-1254)
- Eighth Crusade (1270)
- Ninth Crusade (1271-1272)
Northern Crusades
- Livonian Crusades, a series of campaigns and wars from 1198-1290
- Stedinger Crusade (1232-1234)
Southern Crusades
- Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229)
- Aragonese Crusade (1284-1285)
Eastern Crusades
- (Failed) Crusade against the Tartars (Mongols), 1259