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Recent Examples of intercession
After that, the Vatican must accept the validity of a second miracle attributed to the person’s intercession for them to be declared a saint.
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Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
And the Church holds that two miracles, when attributed to a specific candidate’s intercession, offer proof that a saint really is with God in heaven.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Miracles attributed to the individual's intercession are usually required—one for beatification and a second for canonization.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Shortly before the Church confirmed the second healing miracle attributed to his intercession, the Vatican published a document overhauling its process for confirming supernatural phenomena, the first such revision since 1978.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
And the Church holds that two miracles, when attributed to a specific candidate’s intercession, offer proof that a saint really is with God in heaven.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Miracles attributed to the individual's intercession are usually required—one for beatification and a second for canonization.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Shortly before the Church confirmed the second healing miracle attributed to his intercession, the Vatican published a document overhauling its process for confirming supernatural phenomena, the first such revision since 1978.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intercession
Noun
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Today’s vacant lot or rectory or even empty place of prayer could be tomorrow’s homes for so many people of all faiths — and, in the process, churches struggling to balance their books could get new sources of revenue.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2025
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Contact the church office with prayer requests, or email Patricia@bvcc.net Information: (479) 855-1126 or questions@bvcc.net.—
Carin Schoppmeyer,
Arkansas Online,
10 May 2025
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Ritchie's attorneys are challenging that decision in federal court and have also filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 May 2025
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If the bill does not pass, the state is likely to face hundreds of habeas corpus petitions, which challenge the legality of detention, from those unjustly excluded by the original legislation, creating further unnecessary burdens on the system.—
Elizabeth Hinton,
Hartford Courant,
20 May 2025
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And in cases where contagious people refuse to comply with entreaties to quarantine, health officials will no longer be able to enlist help from law enforcement.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
11 Apr. 2025
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This isn’t all an entreaty for Congress and local leaders to do nothing.—
New York Daily News,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2025
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The high court case centers on the opportunity people must have to contest their removal from the United States — without determining whether Trump’s invocation of the law was appropriate.—
Mark Sherman,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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That strategy has included mass deportations, workplace raids, and even the invocation of an obscure 18th-century wartime statute, The Alien Enemies Act, to expedite the removal of Venezuelan migrants.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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Although Eleanor initially rejects Nina’s pleas for a profile, the cub reporter’s persistence pays off.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Tapper believes conservatives were proven correct in their harsh and at times tactless assessments of Biden’s condition, which clearly worsened in 2023 after his son Hunter faced the possibility of a prison sentence when a plea deal on tax and gun charges fell apart.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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The initiative aims to boost Japan Inc.’s appeal to both foreign and domestic investors.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
16 May 2025
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But in laymen's terms, given the huge number of emergency appeals about Trump administration policies, this could really screw up justices' summer.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
15 May 2025
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Buckner’s 15-Year Single Barrel is a profound, complex whiskey — a classic example of bourbon reaching a noble old age with grace and strength.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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May God grant me this grace, today and always, through the loving intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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“Intercession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intercession. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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