Sentence examples for temporal power over from inspiring English sources

Conventional understandings of Catholicism, especially the claim that the pope held temporal power over all civil rulers, presented a signal challenge to early American Catholics' civil and religious liberty.

The implication is that the pope could not inherit temporal power over the entire earth, although Marchia admitted that the temporal sword could pertain to the pope indirectly and mediately.

The loss of temporal power over the Papal States (de facto in 1870 with the "Roman Question" and de jure in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty) also eliminated the structural conditions which had figured prominently in the family politics of earlier Popes.

A complex, mutually reinforcing relationship of sacerdotal authority and temporal power was obviously shaped over a long period of time.

In 1929 the Lateran Treaty was signed, ending the dispute over the temporal power by making the pope ruler of the small state of Vatican City.

The bull as a whole is indeed a strong but not a novel invocation of the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal power.

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.