Sentence examples for secular affairs from inspiring English sources

He molded secular affairs with a velvet glove.

Novit ille became a part of canon law and justified papal and ecclesiastical interference in secular affairs for centuries.

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 the Gesta, his biographer commented that the more Innocent wished to free himself from secular affairs, the greater they burdened him.

This elaboration increased until drama became a secular affair performed on stages or carts in town streets or open spaces.

When they began L'Abri, most Christian leaders saw keeping a safe distance as the best strategy for dealing with secular public affairs they considered immoral and corrupting.

The disclosure this week that Pope Francis and his envoys helped broker a historic deal between the US and Cuba was a reminder of the Vatican's largely unseen influence on secular, international affairs – and its dual identity.

In 1682 a council of French bishops issued the Four Gallican Articles, which declared restrictions on the authority of the pope in both secular and spiritual affairs.

As living sources of law and values, the Bible and the Talmud had an impact on public and private, as well as secular and religious, affairs.