We have courts of common law, courts of probates (analogous in certain matters to the
spiritual courts in England), a court of admiralty and a court of chancery.
It was a tale of injustice finally rectified in a
spiritual court. The scenes intertwining earthly and divine magistrates were seamless.
The Chancellor sits as a judge of the
spiritual court of a diocesan bishop, which is held in places like a cathedral or chapter house of the diocese.
Yet unlike the solitary life style such women conjure up, Francisca hosted a "
spiritual court" in Valladolid that included influential clerics as well as nobles, which led to expressions of doubt by her detractors regarding her chastity.
Mamberti is on a weeklong visit for talks with Lebanese officials on the conditions of Christians in Lebanon and the region and the work of Christian
spiritual courts in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported.
In 1759, to support his dean in a church squabble, Sterne wrote A Political Romance (later called The History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat), a Swiftian satire on dignitaries of the
spiritual courts. At the demands of embarrassed churchmen, the book was burned.
Meanwhile, Ibrahim Sd, the head of one of the country's Greek Orthodox
spiritual courts, said that as a committed Christian he favors marriage in the church.