The government insisted that the obnoxious interdicts be withdrawn: the bishops refused to yield, and were prosecuted in the civil courts and sent to prison.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
The Church beheld this evil with grief and indignation, and popes issued rescripts and interdicts.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI."
Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
As long as that is the case, vice has an enormous advantage over virtue; such an abnormal social arrangement interdicts morality and places a vast premium upon prostitution.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William