Was it impossible to persuade him that the Temporal Power was no longer a guarantee of independence, and that its loss would be compensated by an amount of liberty which the Church had sought in vain for three centuries, only gathering particles of it by concordats which conceded the use of spiritual arms to temporal rulers?
"Cavour"
Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
In some countries, churches have secured a large measure of religious liberty or autonomy by means of concordats with the civil Power.
"The New Irish Constitution"
J. H. Morgan