Temporal Affairs
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The temporal affairs of a church are understood to be the revenues, lands and tenements, in other words, secular possessions, with which it is endowed. The hiring of a sexton to perform the duties incident to his office has nothing to do with the management of the temporalities of the church.
76 111. 253.