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Recent Examples of friar
The best scenes touch on the various ways in which the friars try to connect with God.
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Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The cross itself was erected to commemorate the death of 21 Franciscan friars during a revolt against colonial occupation.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
Junípero Serra, the controversial Franciscan friar who established the mission system in California, was also on the list.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The post itself shows three photos of the actor posing with priests and friars.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
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Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The cross itself was erected to commemorate the death of 21 Franciscan friars during a revolt against colonial occupation.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
Junípero Serra, the controversial Franciscan friar who established the mission system in California, was also on the list.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The post itself shows three photos of the actor posing with priests and friars.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
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Benedict: Benedict has been in regular rotation ever since St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks in the early middle ages.Anna Moeslein, Parents, 26 Oct. 2024
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At Weihenstephan, which was founded as a brewery in 1040 by Benedictine monks, nonalcoholic wheat beer and lager now make up 10% of the volume.Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
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In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee.Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
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All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
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Unwilling to let the hate go unchallenged, May and Saint decided to kiss in front of the hate preachers and have their friend, Alie Strehl (@potatecreates on Instagram), take a photo.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The phone rings, the subway busker hollers, the preacher sermonizes, the garbage truck backs up, the microwave announces that dinner is hot — and every one of those ordinary acoustic events, boosted by digital technology, clamors for our attention, mostly with little success.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
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Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
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Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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In his letter, the reverend encouraged parishioners to participate in services and activities at the Oak Park location of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish.Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024
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The church’s current reverend, Matthew McHale, was serving at a Unitarian church in San Fernando during the pandemic.Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
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The 71-year-old Shiite cleric helped found Hezbollah in 1982, and has served seven consecutive terms as deputy secretary-general since 1991.Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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The terrorist group announced on Tuesday that Islamic cleric Naim Qassem would take the reins of the organization after serving as its deputy secretary-general for decades.Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Oct. 2024
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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
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The abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on Sept. 11, 2020, and ordained two months later.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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To evade Western sanctions, the Chinese Communist Party uses less bloody and more hidden methods of coercion against these bishops than the show trials and physical ...Nina Shea, National Review, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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