Some bishops - and, in their wake, some priests - denounced such injustice, but most Roman Catholics had other priorities.
A12 Mourners in Puerto Rico offered prayers for the victims and survivors and heard priests denounce violence and appeal for help for the victims' families.
The wedding was performed, and while the priest who blessed the marriage later denounced it when made aware of the deception, the certification of the marriage was never annulled.
In 1614, its hotheaded young priest denounced Galileo for endorsing Copernicus's claim that the earth moved about the sun, instead of remaining motionless at the center of the universe.
When the first Normal School was established in Córdoba, the Capitular Vicar, Gerónimo Clara, and priests denounced it from the pulpits as anathema.
He said the priests never denounced the injustices that took place at that time.
War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin.
He and other priests denounced this as an outrage.
As priests denounced murder from parish pulpits, Irish nationalists braced today for an expected security roundup of the funeral mob that killed two British soldiers Saturday.
However, a priest of the church denounced the act to authorities.