Word: friar
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...said with absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Karl Marx. Still another was Martin Luther, friar of the Augustinian Order of Eremites, who 450 years ago posted his 95 theses concerning indulgences to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. There was nothing defiant or earth-shaking about the act itself-all theologians of the day publicly announced their willingness to debate a timely religious issue. Not until later, in fact, did Luther come to realize that his action of Oct. 31, 1517, was the first shot in the war of words...
...robbing Germany of its wealth. Within weeks after he wrote them, Luther's latest polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would sway him. "My conscience is captive to the Word of God," he told the court. "I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither honest nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot...
...brilliant Augustinian friar Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church and, in effect, began the Reformation. It was also the beginning of his excommunication by Rome; four years later, Pope Leo X drummed the great heretic out of the church. Now two ecumenically minded men from St. Louis have asked Pope Paul VI if it isn't time to end the grudge. Wrote the Rev. Walter Riess, a Lutheran minister, and Edward Meiners, a Catholic layman: "Your lifting of his excommunication would voice to all Protestants a fresh expression of your...
...mostly lechers, and purity is mocked as pretense. Concerned about the state of public morals, the Duke of Vienna selects Angelo, a man of seemingly flinty virtues, to take full power over the state. He enforces the laws with undeviating severity while the Duke masquerades as a lowly friar. In a fury of purity, Angelo orders a young gentleman, Claudio, to be executed for fornication. Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice in religious habit, pleads with Angelo to show mercy. Suddenly his puritanical iciness melts into lust, and he offers Isabella her brother's life in exchange...
Both coaches expressed satisfaction at their club's initial outing, and as Friar mentor Tom Hardin commented, "If they'd had Stempson and Baker, it would probably have been decided by one point, like last year's race...