Sentence examples for temporal power from inspiring English sources
The pope's temporal power was lost.
The city's story is one of exchanging temporal power for a somewhat shakier spiritual sway.
As Hughes consolidated his spiritual and temporal power in New York, his national profile also rose.
Carlo Maderna's exuberant galleon fountain gushes water from its cannon, a reminder of the papacy's past temporal power.
In an age of the divine right of kings, devotion to God and devotion to temporal power were united.
At this point, the temptation was to head for Rome and destroy the temporal power of the Papacy for good.
This act was the theoretical foundation of the temporal power of the papacy.
This Donation of Pippin (756) provided the basis for the papal claim to temporal power.
A yes vote would mark another defeat for the temporal power of the Catholic church in a country it once dominated.
His message went counter to a deep vein of anticlericalism in France, which has long drawn sharp distinctions between issues of faith and matters of temporal power.
Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers".
