He molded secular affairs with a velvet glove.
Well, we can still have our piss-ups on March 17, since these are purely secular affairs.
Both the involvement of the church in secular affairs and the participation of temporal rulers in the Crusades can be read as variations on this theme.
The last decades of the 19th century were also marked by a gradual decline in Roman Catholic Church activity in secular affairs.
In step with the enforced retreat of the church from secular affairs, she came to feel that it was incumbent on the state to control the intellectual life of its subjects.
The church adopted its own canonical hours for reckoning daily worship: there were seven of these matins, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline but in secular affairs the system of 24 hours held sway.
Though both of these tracts sought to limit church authority in secular affairs, Marsilius went farther in demanding that the church be subject to the state in all worldly matters.
Not allowing the church a role in secular affairs, Philip forced Clement to annul Pope Boniface VIII's bulls Clericis Laicos, forbidding clergy to pay subsidies to lay authorities, and Unam Sanctam, defining the pope's supreme authority.
Accompanying a young member of the Colonna family to Spain, he completed his education at the university at Alcalá de Henares (now the University of Madrid), where he studied law and then returned to Rome eager to learn more about aristocratic ways of life and secular affairs.
July 980 January 23 , 1002near Viterbo, Italy Otto III, (born July 980 died Jan . 23 , 1002near Viterbo, Italy), German king and Holy Roman emperor who planned to recreate the glory and power of the ancient Roman Empire in a universal Christian state governed from Rome, in which the pope would be subordinate to the emperor in religious as well as in secular affairs.
