Attacks are often made upon this temporal power of the clergy and this influence of the Church in worldly affairs.
If you say openly that you are going to give me back my Temporal Power, well and good; if not, I prefer the aid of Austria.
The significance of such facts, wrote the English minister at Turin, could only be the coming fall of the Pope's Temporal Power.
But, said the knight, “Christ’s life plainly shows that He made no claim whatever to temporal power.
Still it cannot be too widely known that at any rate in theory the Russian Church is in things spiritual independent of temporal power.
In Bohemia, Jerome of Prague rejected the temporal jurisdiction of priests, and John Huss asserted that Constantine had done great wrong when he endowed Pope Silvester with lands and temporal power.
Not alone did he possess the keys of heaven and hell, but also those of temporal power.
Finding it impossible either through spiritual or temporal power to compel absolute celibacy[58] the king for the benefit of his exchequer established a license for concubinage upon the payment of a tax known as cullagium.
Abelard, assailed the Pope's temporal power, attacked the wealth of the clergy, urged the secularisation of ecclesiastical property, and led a popular revolt in Rome for a republic.
He meant to exercise a spiritual power very much like the temporal power he wielded.
The pressure desirable for this purpose could now be supplied by means of the very danger with which the Papacy was threatened by the great German heresy, and against which Rome so sorely needed the aid of a temporal power.
We must 'obey God rather than man,' as St. Peter says: these words impose a limit on temporal power.
This, I believe, was the first attempt the Pope has made to establish his temporal power in this country; and it is a source of consolation to me, dearer almost than existence itself, to be the first to meet this holy bull.
I learned that they were all united in one resolve; and that,--to deprive the Holy Father of temporal power!
I remembered how it was that he had no temporal power,--though all the powers of the earth should be subservient to him!
Yet of such base and flimsy material are the pope's claim to temporal power constructed.
The abstract question of the popes' relation to civil rights and to temporal power cannot be viewed apart from the sober teaching of history.
This consideration would have sufficed at any time to make the tenure of temporal power on the part of the Roman bishops, precarious--but it did not by any means stand alone.
This question depended upon the answer to another: Shall the Church of God be free or become the creature of temporal power?
It is easy, when calmly seated at a winter's fireside, to charge Gregory VII with an undue assumption of temporal power.
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