[Teralogos News] Split Catholic Church To Decide Trademarks

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Split Catholic Church To Decide Trademarks

KÖNIGSBERG-KALININGRAD/TERALOGOS 	June 23, 2101   
   
Representatives from the Catholic Church and the Catholic Church (Reformed) are scheduled to meet this week in the free city of Königsberg to discuss the ongoing trademark and intellectual property rights dispute between the two denominations. In prepared statements, each side expressed hope that the meetings would be productive.   
   
Recent conversions of Catholics to "alternative religions" have alarmed leaders in both the Traditional Vatican and the Reform Papal Seat in Chicago. Islam and Mormonism have grown steadily in traditional Catholic regions, while Christian Hyperevolutionism and Buddhism have gained popularity at reform Catholicism's expense in the developed world. The struggle over intellectual property is seen by many as having distracted both denominations from the larger crisis.   
   
The dispute over ownership of long-established Catholic Church concepts such as Pope and the confessional has been a stumbling block to improved relations between the two faiths since their acrimonious split in 2038. Throughout the 2040s, Traditional and Reformed Catholic denominations sparred in court over the intellectual property rights for widely-recognized Catholic terms, concepts and content. The death of Traditional Catholic Pope Clement XV in 2053 caused both sides to tone down the rhetoric, leading to a period of relative tolerance.   
   
It is widely believed that the 2090 ascension of Cardinal Anne DuChamps to the position of Pope Martha of the Reformed Catholic Church infuriated many high-ranking Catholic conservatives. The selection of a woman as Pope was hailed by many in Europe and the United States, where the modern Catholic reform movement started. Traditional Catholics, dominant in Africa and South America, called upon Pope Zachary II to denounce the new Reform Pope. The Vatican's decision to again seek control over pre-schism Catholic intellectual property came within weeks of Martha's ascension.   
   
- filed by Jamais Cascio