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Recent Examples of friar
Leo is also notable for being the first Augustinian friar to lead the church.
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 May 2025
Black, the color of his shoes, has no official symbolism, though Richardson pointed out that Franciscan friars, who preach poverty and charity, are known to wear black shoes and sandals.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
Francis sought to follow his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar renowned for poverty, peace, and care of creation.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
Image Fra Angelico, the Renaissance artist and Dominican friar who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982, may be the best known.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 May 2025
Black, the color of his shoes, has no official symbolism, though Richardson pointed out that Franciscan friars, who preach poverty and charity, are known to wear black shoes and sandals.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
Francis sought to follow his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar renowned for poverty, peace, and care of creation.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
Image Fra Angelico, the Renaissance artist and Dominican friar who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982, may be the best known.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friar
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The ceremony, where Tucker and Hudgens exchanged personalized vows, was officiated by former monk Jay Shetty.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
4 July 2025
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The Trappist monk Thomas Merton describes a similar experience on the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on a rare occasion when leaving his cloistered monastery.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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Instead of withdrawing from the world in isolated monasteries, members of this order travel as mendicants to aid the poor as well as serve as missionaries and teachers.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
9 May 2025
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Balmer, who visited him in Baton Rouge while researching a 1998 magazine piece about the disgraced preacher, said Swaggart struggled mightily after his fall from grace.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
2 July 2025
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The Pentecostal preacher was caught on camera with a prostitute in New Orleans in 1988, which led to his defrocking by the Assembly of God denomination.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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Explore medieval monastic ruins on Innisfallen Island, and immerse yourself in ancient silence.—
Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
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While the Thai Buddhism depicted in The White Lotus is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short meditation retreats to ordination as a monastic.—
Brooke Schedneck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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Jimmy Swaggart, the reverend who rose to prominence during the golden age of televangelism in the 1980s before a prostitution scandal rocked his evangelical empire, has died.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 July 2025
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What To Know The reverend had been in critical condition since suffering a heart attack at his home in Baton Rouge on June 14.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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There are multiple claimants to the Panchen Lama and the Karmapa Lama, the second- and third-highest ranking clerics, respectively, in Tibetan Buddhism.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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Revered by his followers as a marja', a leading Shiite Muslim cleric, his role or that of his successor may come to resemble others holding this religious title, such as Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who holds no government position yet retains vast influence.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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On the Sunday before the wedding, two of them—the abbot emeritus Padre Norberto Villa and his colleague Padre Paolo Maria Censori—filed into the Chapel of the Dead to celebrate Mass.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot.—
Sarah Barringer,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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Leo’s old diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, meanwhile, is waiting for their bishop to come home, and then there’s Argentina, which never got a papal visit from the first-ever Argentine pope.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2025
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Verny, who is currently the bishop of Chambery, France, has been a member of the commission since 2022 and heads the child protection council of the bishops conference in France, where the church has been rocked by revelations of decades and abuse by priests and bishops.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2025
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