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Article: Religious brothers stress service, change. (Congregation of Christian Brothers)(Religious Life)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 21, 1997
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The chapel of St. Laurence High School in Burbank, Ill., was filled with members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers--once called the Christian Brothers of Ireland--together with an equal number of former brothers who had served for varying periods and who still regard the experience as an enriching one. (One older man had left more than 50 years ago, just before final profession. He was now a widower. He often returns to another brothers' community chapel for morning Mass; the ties are never really severed.)
The carefully prepared liturgy paid tribute to Edmund Ignatius Rice, a native of Ireland and founder of two congregations of brothers. John Paul II ...