The word 'friar' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a member of a religious order, particularly the Catholic or Anglican Church, who is typically of a mendicant order (one that relies on begging rather than receiving payment). Example: "The friar walked through the streets, his brown hood pulled over his head as he collected alms and offered blessings to passersby."
The chief executive of the world's largest oil company will on Wednesday face two of the firm's most persistent environmental activist shareholders – a nun from New Jersey and a friar from Milwaukee.
The building could be mistaken for a university hall of residence, but the place that McSweeney and 17 others call home is one of only two remaining communes that were established in London in the early 1970s by a former Franciscan friar, Greg Moore.
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(An Italian manuscript from 1677 describes how a friar from Milan died after being struck by one).
Fra Filippo Lippi was – like the saintly Fra Angelico – in holy orders, but by contrast he was a bad friar.
Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven.
Their grip was interrupted by the invasion of Charles VIII of France in 1494, which brought in its wake the brief rule of Girolamo Savonarola, the austere Dominican friar from Ferrara who berated the Florentines for their luxuries, gambling, carnivals, and particularly their wanton paintings, which made "the Virgin Mary look like a harlot".
Whereas the bishops prevented Father Rossi from singing at a mass with Pope Benedict in 2007, he and other charismatics have been invited to one of Pope Francis's events in Rio.The charismatics' rivals in Brazil's once-influential liberation-theology movement, identified with the left, also hope that Francis might be a transformative pope, according to Frei Betto, a Dominican friar.
Last week, Leon Kieres, head of IPN, the agency that keeps Poland's communist-era documents, accused a 69-year-old Dominican friar, Konrad Hejmo, of collaborating with the Polish intelligence services in the 1980s.
Luther, then an obscure theologian and minister, was outraged by the behaviour of Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar who was selling indulgences to raise money to fund the pet project of his boss, Pope Leo X: the reconstruction of St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
In his black coat tied with a cord, and his black cap, he looked like a medieval friar.
