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Church Tribunals and Civil Courts

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

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Church Tribunals and Civil Courts

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska declares that "wherein the civil rights of a priest are not involved, he must abide by the decision of the church's tribunals." In other words, an ecclesiastical court has jurisdiction of ecclesiastical cases, and the civil courts of civil cases; and that is the way that it ought to be. The state has no business to interfere with the actions of a religious body so long as those religious bodies do not injure the civil rights of citizens.