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Vocabulary- the role of the Church

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persecute   to cause a person to suffer because of their beliefs  
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monastery   a community of monks  
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monk   a man who has taken a solemn vow to devote his life to prayer & service in a monastery  
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excommunicate   to formally deprive a person of membership in a church  
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sacrament   a solemn rite of christian churches  
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pilgrimage   a journey to a holy site  
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relic   a holy object touched by a saint or a holy person  
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convent   a community of nuns...also called a nunnery  
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nun   a woman who has taken a solemn vow to devote her life to prayer & service to church  
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rhetoric   the study of persuasive writing & speaking  
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theology   the study of God & religious truths  
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natural law   the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking  
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monasticism   a way of life in which men & women withdraw from the rest of the world to devote their life to their faith  
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religious order   the brotherhood or sisterhood of monks, nuns or friars  
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friar   a member of a certain religious order devoted to teaching and works of charity  
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clergy   the body of people, such as priest,who perform the sacred functions of a church  
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