ayg wrote:If Charis wins any peace treaty would probably say that those sacraments are valid. If Charis loses, the baby in your example is likely to be killed with all the other babies, so it won't matter if it's legitimate or not.
While it's quite clear that the Emperor and the Archbishop - or perhaps I should say the Crown and the Cap - both take cognizance in their respective spheres of the political needs of the other, it appears to me that in the general case, the Cap leaves secular governance to the Crown, and vice-versa. While I can see the Church of Charis ultimately acknowledging the validity of Temple Loyalist sacraments, I'm not sure I see the Crown imposing anything beyond freedom of conscience on defeated enemies - that is, a defeated (e.g.) Desnair would be required to allow and acknowledge the Church of Charis, but I can't really see them saying that the CoGA in Desnair must accept the validity of sacraments performed by Loyalist clergy in the EoC during the period of the Interdict. Nor can I see them imposing a requirement that the CoGA in Desnair accept (or declare) that the Interdict is, and always was, null and void. Perhaps there might eventually be a negotiated rapprochement between the Church of Charis and the Church of God Awaiting, much as there has been (more or less) between the Church of England (and through it, the other Churches of the Anglican Communion) and the Roman Catholic Church, but even that rapprochement doesn't erase all the lines...