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CLAIRON PICARD
 
MONKS NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT SECULAR DIRECTION OF STATE
 
Vitry le Francois, May 16, 5575:  CLAIRON PICARD asked Publius Sempronius, Abbot of Vitry le Francois, how the Contemplative Monastic Order of Occidentalium was faring under the current laws concerning religion, and he replied:
 

Very little of the legislation actually restricts our monasteries themselves. Our work and prayer and weekly philosophical and theological discussions are not restricted.  Our sales of mustard, herbal remedies and wine are taxed as are our investment profits but this is not onerous nor do we object to doing so.
 
We cooperate entirely with the long standing policy of the Archdiocese of Atyr to scrupulously follow the current law concerning religion.
 
As you know, our Order subsidizes the Institute of Higher Studies run by the Ordo Clericorum Regularium Congregationis Fraum Eliae which receives nothing from its leadership or the Curia or anybody else except from us and a little from tuition. There is a lot of objection to the no teacher led prayer law at the Institute for reasons of conscience but at the request of the Archbishop we have insisted that our funding is contingent upon strict compliance with current law.
 
Many of the Eliatists teach at Auroran Patriarchal Church primary and secondary schools which are largely in Martois Province and there is objection by many of them to that same rule.  Again we are doing most of the funding and we are supporting the Archbishop’s insistence that the law of the land be obeyed.
 
Michel Malfois, a Federation Canrille member of the Chamber of Deputies, has assured the Archdiocese, the Abbey, and the Institute are all in compliance with current law.