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support for parish priests, who were generally of modest means. Nonetheless, the church and its conservative supporters saw the
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legislation that diminished its power. Other laws had removed the church from its former role in recording births, marriages, and deaths as baptisms, wedding banns, holy matrimony, and burials in which priests were owed fees and created a civil registry. Ecclesiastical fees were a key financial
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has raised this issue publicly in 1850, criticizing the
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