Roman Catholic Church Of RulerCraft

## Basic information

### Major nations following this church

Kingdom Of Nickano, Poland, West Slav Confederation ,Kingdom Of Zakopane, (,Hungary), Republic of Ava (partially), Carolingian Empire (partially)

The Roman Catholic Church of Rulercraft is the biggest and most active church worldwide and its denomination, Catholicism, being the most popular "religion" on the server. It is mainly centered around Europe and Oceania. The Church (and thereby Catholicism) is lead by Pope Raketoplan I. It belongs to the overall religion of Christianity.

## Mission Of The Church

"The goal of the Roman Catholic Church Of RulerCraft is to be an active, fun and safe community for Christian brothers and sisters, to promote world peace, truth and fairness, to overall improve the world and to most importantly spread the message (Gospel) of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

Or to make it short, the church's main goals are:

1) Being an active, fun and safe home for all Christians

2) Being a "light to the nations"

3) Promoting world peace and justice

4)Strengthening global Christianity

5) Helping the poor and needy

6) Defending Christian beliefs

7) Helping with building Christian places of worship

## All church leaders (and institutions)

Pope

*Leader of the church*

* Pope Raketoplan I.

Papal Council*The highest and most powerful institution: It advises the Pope, proposes and votes upon new laws, projects and ideas etc.*

* NickanoCrafter
* TheOfficialSmudgyChart
* ConorMC
* AlleBalle
* AlphaBoi

Archbishops*The representatives of (almost) all Catholic nations*

* Pope Raketoplan I. - Kingdom of Zakopane
* NickanoCrafter - Kingdom of Nickano
* AlphaBoi - Republic of Ava
* ‘my name, bruh’ - West Slav Confederation

Guild Leaders*A guild is a community/council of Catholics with the same job*

* NickanoCrafter - Builders And Architects
* Pope Raketoplan I. - Journalist
* TheOfficialSmudgyChart - Scribes And Chroniclers
* AlleBalle - Finance
* AlphaBoi - Charity

## History

### The beginning

The first active RC Papacy was founded by a player named Ratzi, very little is known of this period, but from what we do know, it was inactive irrelevant and besides the members themselves, almost noone knew it even existed. Some time later Aprons became the Pope and the trend largely continued.

After Aprons resined as Pope, a player going by Alphaboi or Aura became the new Pope, he massively expanded the Papacy and layed the ground work for its eventual golden age. However he also almost killed it at the same time by declaring a crusade against Byzantium. It was only attended by himself. This was the third crusade he delcared and also the only three crusades to have ever happened on RC, but unlike the one on Byzantium, the first two were against small, inactive towns, none of which exist today.

### The first schism

This also caused an internal split in the Papacy where several influental members going by L1, Zoro and Aprons (yes the previous Pope) split off and declared "Cheesedom" remnants of it still exist today in the form of old discord servers, but is no longer in operation, not least of which because all three founders are banned on RC today. This was also the time a player callled Raketoplan (Rake for short) became prominent, irrelevant now, but will be important later.

Several members of the Papacy created a different, this time actually Catholic church. Which is the one still in use today. The idea was started by Smudgy and Aprons, which then also invited Janeko, Shadow, L1, Ryguy and Puglake. Smudgy was the Magistrate (like head overseer), Ryguy was the Pope and the rest made up a permanent papal council of 5. They were looking for more members, and so Janeko decided to invite Rake to the Papacy, he offered some criticism, mostly of its lack of democracy and external input. After a bit of back and forth internally in the Council, Rakes criticism was adheared and elections were announced.

Things were looking up, but, there are now two churches competing for influence, so this new church made it its number 1 priority to remove the old one. They were quite effective at this by siphoning off members, and with its failed crusade, Alpha agreed to step down as Pope and join the new church.

### New Democratic beginnings

The first democratically elected Council was made up off, Janeko, Shadow, Aprons, Piloted and Rake. With Ryguy still the Pope and Smudgy the magistrate. It existed in a healthy manor and actually improved the churches influence, mostly by stomping out all the off-shoots that Alphas crusade on Byzantium spawned. Then came "The first crisis." You see what happened is that Rake suggested that there should be a mechanism in place to remove a magistrate from power, so he could be held accountable for abuse of power, however he also explicitly stated that Smudgy has not committed such action yet, and is only for later use.

### New conflicts

Two days later Smudgy declared new council elections after exactly one month since the last. Problem was that the term limit was two months making the council, but especially Rake and Shadow very suspicious of Smudgy. This eventually blew the lid off the entire system and Piloted became the new Magistrate. He didnt actually hold that title, but had the same rights and duties as a Magistrate would. He completely restructured the system that allowed for Cardinals and the Pope was almost a dictator for life. These elections were very close and deviding, the only candidates with any reasonable chance of being elected were Rake, and Piloted himself, however Piloted decided last minute that he didnt actually want to be Pope and passed the Papacy off to Rake. This didnt sit right with voters on either side and even Rake himself said it was a little scummy.

### A new pope that resigned quickly

So new elections began, this time it was Rake vs. Tommynotit. Tommy won by a single vote and barely did anything. Only to convert Pagan and leave the discord without saying a word. The following day Piloted converted to Eggmanism and also left in a similar fashion.

### Another new pope

This put Smudgy back in charge and a reversal to the old system. At this time, Pope wasnt elected directly yet, but instead by the council. So Smudgy called new council elections to pick the new Pope. Only three candidates presented themselves, thoose being Zoro, Alpha and Rake. Both Rake and Zoro presented their candidates only for them to fail getting elected. So eventually they settled on Rake as Pope.

### Spying Scandal

Things were going fine and is the closest this church ever was to a golden age, however a problem started rearing its ugly head. That being that the church was overrun by spies for Eggmanism. Zoro Aprons and L1 were all Badniks at this point, and even Piloted came back to the church, but without actually converting and several of these even made it to the council (Aprons and L1). (There were additional elections between so it was back to full amount) This in particular caused Smudgy to be very anxious of Eggman influence and created CI, standing for Catholic Intelligence. What he tried doing was taking note of who was a potential spy for eggmanism and then carefully get rid of them. This entire thing would eventually blow in his face for the obvious fact that he didnt tell about it to either the Pope or anyone on the council, much less get it approved. So Rake, Alpha and partially Janeko would get rid of him, effectivaly merging the Magistrate and Pope roles into one. What followed was almost a purge of all Badniks and saw several changes introduced. The most notable being

> Miscellaneous section, §1 The mayor of a town cannot be considered a catholic unless their town religion is also catholic
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Which was the legal pretext for kicking out all of the Badniks. or

> Pope section, §1 Is the server owner
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Which is the merging of Magistrate and Pope roles and more...

### A new threat: The SLAIM religion

But a new threat was looming on the horizon, a new religion called SLAIM (yes, it was and still is spelled all capital for some reason). This caused the council to seek allies with their former enemies, namely Eggmen. Both Eggmanism and Catholicism stopped actively attacking each other and sorta just moved into a starring contest at that point, with no real actions taken beyond it. Aprons (who was at the council again) would leak the entire conversation of Eggman-Catholic cooperation against SLAIM causing snc\_ (the leader of Byzantium) to threaten war on Graminia (Janekos and Rakes nation). No agreement was reached and snc seemingly just lost interest. Eventually Byzantium would merge into BKF catapulting it into the superpower it is today. With it just about every town in Byzantium converted from SLAIM to Orthodoxy causing SLAIM to loose up to 80% of its followers and effectively die. But even tho Eggmanism and Catholicism won the war, things werent all great.

### The dark ages of the RC church

This war didnt just kill SLAIM, but RC religions as a whole, and Catholicism was in the worst period it has been in, since founding. The church (except for two members, NickanoCrafter and Smudgy) became completely inactive. The vast majority of the Papal council was inactive and didn't use their power to do anything. Even the Pope was inactive and couldn't fix all the problems in the church. The Catholic Church was also the only active church/denomination worldwide, so this also meant the downfall of global Christianity. Especially NickanoCrafter, a Papal council member was very upset about this situation and proposed many different ideas and plans on how to save the church, however there wasn't any meaningful response from the Pope or the council and his plans were mostly ignored.

### NickanoCrafter's second attempt on saving the church

NickanoCrafter now changed his tactics: Him, one person, proposing plans and ideas on how to save the church was mostly ignored, so he decided that it might be best if he doesn't fight this battle alone and looks for allies.

NickanoCrafter was the leader of the Kingdom Of Nickano, a Christian (majority Catholic) and culturally European monarchy mostly located in Oceania/Australia. His country was the second most populous nation worldwide and many of his active and hard-working citizens were Christians as well. So, he created new plans and gathered with other Nickanian Christians, his plans were meant to save the church through the next council elections in January 2024:

The plan was to use the huge population of his nation to his advantage and flood the church with loyal Nickanian voters. These voters would then vote for 4 handpicked Nickanian candidates, that ran for the election and were supposed to replace the inactive candidates of the council (which basically meant replacing 80% of Papal Council members). NickanoCrafter stated his intentions for why he created this entire plan in a message directed at his citizens in a private server: "Our nation can save the church and I want to use all our citizen's combined voting power for getting competent and active people to be voted into the council. The RC church is inactive and weak and we shall use our power to change and save it!". His plan worked, many Nickanians joined the church and voted for the Nickanian candidates (by free will, nobody was forced to) and all 4 Nickanian candidates won with overwhelming majorities. 4 out of 5 council members were Nickanian citizens at the beginning of 2024.

This new council quickly started reshaping the church and the church/Papal council become more active then ever, with lots of new ideas and projects being started almost daily. Such projects included a church constitution (which acts as a theological, moral and judicial fundament and guide for the church), more jobs and even guilds (like Catholic priests, builders, journalists, charity workers, financial managers etc), this RC wiki page, the creation of more events and much, much more! This Nickanian plan layed the foundations for a hopefully soon to come and long awaited golden age of the RC Church.