However, these ecclesiastic pronouncements required legal sanctions of a temporal authority.

Bishops had some temporal authority, but not necessarily in the sense of a full diocese.

The problem with relying on religion is that you give the temporal authorities the power to ban it.

Two of the surviving ratings stood there, guns ready, a relic of temporal authority.

This article raises the question of how much governing control was acceptable for the temporal authorities to have over the spiritual sphere.

The selection of the venue for the next council, far from the armed temporal authority of the Papacy, is significant.

He thus held both the spiritual and the temporal authority in the province.

These are seen to take the moral leadership role often occupied by a professional priesthood, though without any temporal authority.

The temporal authority is sovereign, and responsible for translating divine natural law into human positive law.

As for temporal authorities, the Protector himself had approved our undertaking.