Some Christian clergy actively protested the forced conversion of the Moors

Evidence

This friend was so moved by compassion for us that he never ceased to argue before prelates and councils [cabildos—a word applicable both to cathedral chapters and to municipal councils] against all those who had given their consent to any such thing and to inveigh against them. Together with many others he issued a summons to protest and to argue strenuously against His Majesty and his ministers. He would have done so to some effect if he had not died within two months. He charged me to pray for him (le hiciese obsequios) if he should die, for when I visited him he was sick, and I wept when he died, for he was a loyal friend. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Refutes the flattening assumption that all Christians supported forced conversion — echoes ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ in showing dissent within a dominant group during a moral panic.
• QUESTION: How widespread was Christian clerical opposition to the 1525-26 forced conversions? Harvey suggests significant but the death of this networker cut it short.