Word: brethrens
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...members of the Northern Ireland Parliament and announced his support for the continuing campaign of civil disobedience-rent and tax strikes and one-day shutdowns by shopkeepers in Ulster's predominantly Catholic border towns. The action demonstrated to Lynch's own voters his concern about their Catholic brethren in the north, but it will have little effect on the deadly stalemate in Northern Ireland...
...years ago in London by a former Anglican named Robert de Grimston, now in his mid-30s, who is known as "the Teacher" to Processeans. De Grimston has no permanent base, but conducts a will-o'-the-wisp peripatetic ministry, communicating with his followers in letters they call "brethren information." Occasionally he drops in at a Process chapter to teach the "brethren" in person...
...Wave." The words: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on the cities, the islands and the villages of our Orthodox Fatherland, as well as the holy monasteries, which are scourged by the worldly touristic wave. Grace us with a solution to this dramatic problem and protect our brethren, who are sorely tried by the modernistic spirit of these contemporary Western invaders...
Every moment's continuance of the injunctions against these newspapers amounts to a flagrant, indefensible and continuing violation of the First Amendment. It is unfortunate that some of my brethren are apparently willing to hold that the publication of news may sometimes be enjoined. Such a holding would make a shambles of the First Amendment. Both the history and language of the amendment support the view that the press must be left free to publish news, whatever the source, with out censorship, injunctions or prior restraints...
...Some who turn off may be expressing the natural and inevitable resentment of the passive believer against the ecstatic believer. In his magisterial study Enthusiasm, the late Catholic scholar Msgr. Ronald Knox described the attitude of the religious enthusiast toward the world at large: "He will have no weaker brethren who plod and stumble, who (if the truth must be told) would like to have a foot in either world, whose ambition is to qualify, not to excel. He has before his eyes a picture of the early Church, visibly penetrated with supernatural influences; and nothing else will serve...