The positions adopted by the Church authorities during this period were very personal. Depending on each case, they went from the open support of some bishops and priests to the armed groups of the left, to the explicit support to the dictatorship and to the torture and murder by the same. The vast majority of the clergy remained on the sidelines, either because they ignored the events produced or because they chose not to get involved. [ "citation needed" ] A number of those who disappeared during the Dirty War were priests, including Pablo Gazzarri.