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Unfortunately there is no Secular Court in the Roman Catholic religion. All courts or legal issues are decided under the auspices of canon law. Secular issues are left to the jurisdiction of the various governments that the church interacts and lives with.

The most senior ecclesiastical court is he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) (Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei), previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, and sometimes simply called the Holy Office. This is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. Among the most active of these major Curial departments, it oversees Catholic doctrine. The CDF is the modern name for what used to be the Holy Office of the Inquisition.

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