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  2. Right to petition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Others say the petition clause gives no right to lobby. [17] Lobbying includes approaching a public official in secret, possibly giving them money. But petitioning, as America's founders knew it, was a public process, involving no money. Some litigants have contended that the right to petition the government includes a requirement that the ...

  3. List of American proposed candidates for Catholic sainthood

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    New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church: Blesseds and Saints Canonized by Pope John Paul II During the Years 1979–1983. Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-754-4. Medjugorje Center of Pacifica. "All For Mary: American Saints". Retrieved on 2009-10-09. Time. "American Saints", Time, April 7, 1930. Retrieved on 2009-10-09.

  4. Petition - Wikipedia

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    A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication . In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to an official and signed by numerous individuals.

  5. The United Methodist Church Split, Explained - AOL

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    The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church.

  6. Motion (parliamentary procedure) - Wikipedia

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    The motion to ratify is also included in this group. [28] Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure uses the term, "restoratory", for a group of six motions that restored or brought a question back before the assembly: [37] Expunge, Ratify, Rescind, Reconsider, Reconsider and Enter, and Take from the table. These "restoratory" motions ...

  7. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    If anyone declares that the [Word] of God who works miracles is not identical with the Christ who suffered, or alleges that God the Word was with the Christ who was born of woman, or was in him in the way that one might be in another, but that our lord Jesus Christ was not one and the same, the word of God incarnate and made man, and that the ...

  8. Parish register - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, in 1640 the church burned along with all parish records from 1620 to 1640. After the church burned, the parish priest commissioned at Notre Dame-de-la-Recouverance reconstructed the destroyed register entries from memory by recording the rather limited number of births, baptisms and marriages to take place within the colony ...

  9. Supplication - Wikipedia

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    One example of supplication is the Western Christian ritual of novena (from novem, the Latin word for "nine") wherein one repeatedly asks for the same favor over a period of nine days. [6] This ritual began in Spain during the Middle Ages when a nine-day period of hymns and prayers led up to a Christmas feast, a period which ended with gift giving.