secular authority

The practice of religious and secular authority united in the sovereign has a long history.

He was tortured and then turned over to the secular authorities.

Secular authority is coming off as more humane than the church in this matter.

"Now they're seeing what the secular authorities are doing about it.

They provided more narrow medical services, and were founded by the secular authorities.

More broadly, it has raised the issue of where the line between religious and secular authority lies.

This does not include, however, those normally executed by the secular authorities.

No one in a position of spiritual or secular authority should be put on a pedestal.

"The matter is best handled by secular authorities at this point.

"My beloved father, this has always been the way of things between the secular authority and the religious.

Even the secular authorities don't have much use for someone who's been cast out of the faith."

We must establish an Iraqi secular authority - soon.

Conflicts between ecclesiastical and secular authority over education were frequent.

In 1819 Emmerich was investigated again, this time by secular authorities.

The enforcement of the ban on the 41 sentences fell to the secular authorities.

To them, Diotrephes became a name for the hated secular authority, or anyone else that got in their way.

Secular authority has made the mistake of tying itself too closely to Christianity.

He was referring to the tangled history of relations between the secular authorities and the Islamic movement.

The secular authorities did not automatically acquit those who s hanging.

Highest ranked of the ken, but possessing no secular authority.

Usually, no prisoner remained there long before being handed over to the secular authorities for execution.

In truth, secular authorities did not want to disrupt the commercial enterprise, which employed hundreds of people.

He was likewise invested with secular authority in the county of the Cambrésis.

These parties rose to prominence only to be banned by Turkey's secular authorities.

Over these Church lands, secular authorities had neither the power of taxation nor legal jurisdiction.