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So, I'm new to this forum, but I have a couple timeline ideas swirling around my head. I just would like some feedback on them, see which one to develop further. So, without further adieu, my ideas:

God is dead
A major cover up regarding the Vatican Bank destroys the church's power and influence, resulting in a mass exodus from the Mother Church. Amid record numbers of decline and an ever-more militant secularist world, the Catholic Church must fight for survival.

"The Rock of Peter must withstand"
Liberal American Cardinal Kristopher Joyce is elected to the Papacy. Once in office, sweeping reforms are instituted. Celibacy for the priesthood is abolished, and gays are allowed to become men of the cloth. But, the new Pope Hilarius II (yes, it's a real name) took a step to far. After announcing his intentions of allowing women to be priests, Catholics rebelled. Conservative and Traditionalist clergymen and laymen alike took up moral arms and fled from the Church, Cardinals included. After electing Scottish Cardinal Shaun MacGregor to "the true Papacy" the two popes battle it around the international stage. Who will win?

Rex mos Ago
Mass is in session. The benediction is given. But then something goes wrong. The air is too heavy and someone is screaming. The pope topples from the balcony,and hits the concrete. Pope Linus II was the most traditionalist pope in decades, and he had "held the front line" against the worlds most dominant religion. Atheism. As a bickering, feuding College of Cardinals locks itself within it's hallowed halls, will Catholicism claw it's way back to the top?


*Oh Lord, can someone move this to "Future History"?
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