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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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