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Congregation of Christian Brothers

The Congregation of Christian Brothers (Latin: Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Rice.[1]

Abbreviation

CFC

1802 (1802)

Edmund Ignatius Rice

Waterford, Ireland

Lay Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)

926 members (2017)

Latin: Facere et docere
(English: 'To do and to teach')

Peter Clinch

Via Marcantonio Colonna 9, 00192 Rome, Italy

Their first school opened in Waterford, Ireland, in 1802.[1] At the time of its foundation, though much relieved from the harshest of the Penal Laws by the Relief Acts, Catholics faced much discrimination throughout the newly created United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland pending full Catholic emancipation in 1829.


This congregation is sometimes referred to as simply "the Christian Brothers",[2] leading to confusion with the De La Salle Brothers—also known as the Christian Brothers, sometimes by Lasallian organisations themselves.[3] As such, Rice's congregation is sometimes called the Irish Christian Brothers[2] or the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers.

Irish History Reader, Christian Brothers, M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1905.

Graiméar na Gaeidhilge, Na Bráithre Críostaí, M. H. Gill, Dublin, 1901.

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Graiméar Gaeilge na mBráithre Críosta, M.H. Mac an Ghoill agus a Mhac Teo, Baile Átha Cliath, 1960.

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Matamaitic na hArdteistiméireachta, by Tomás Ó Catháin, Na Bráithre Críostaí, 1967.

Leaving Certificate Chemistry, Christian Brothers Congregation, Folens, Dublin, 1970?.

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Leaving Certificate Physics [translated from the Irish], Christian Brothers Congregation, Folens, Dublin, 1973.

New Irish Grammer, Christian Brothers, published by C. J. Fallon, Dublin, 1990.

AIDS to Irish Composition by Christian Brothers (), 1902.

Jerome Fitzpatrick

Second Book of Modern Geography, The Christian Brothers, M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1904.

Cóir ṁúinte na Gaeḋilge, leis Na Bráiṫre Críostaí, M.H. mac an Goill, Baile áṫa cliaṫ, 1910.

First Steps in Irish: A classic, succinct, book for learning to read, write and speak the Irish language, by L. Cinneide, The Christian Brothers.

(1803–1840), Irish novelist, poet and playwright.

Gerald Griffin

– inventor of the motor-powered submarine

John Philip Holland

– Australian educator

Paul Francis Keaney

– American educator

Joseph G. McKenna

– Australian educator

Paul Nunan

(1910–1992), Irish language scholar contributed major contribution to a standard for Irish Grammer, he also served as provincial of the order.

Liam Ó hAnluain

Edmund Ignatius Rice – founder of the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers

Blessed

(1908–1989), teacher,[76] and mathematician, wrote the first textbook for the new leaving certificate mathematics in Irish in the 1960s.[77]

Thomas Munchin Keane

– Irish early Christian Brother and second Superior General of the congregation

Michael Paul Riordan

– Australian educator and leader of the first Australian community of Christian Brothers.

Patrick Ambrose Treacy

– became a film director of Koyaanisqatsi after being a brother in the US.

Godfrey Reggio

Laurence (Larry) Ennis (1933–2021), served as manager from 1979 to 1981[78]

Antrim Gaelic football team

(1878–1910) – teacher and Irish Language enthusiast, and compiled and published many early aids to teaching the Irish language.[79][80]

Jerome Fitzpatrick

Seamus , teacher, principal, Hurling Manager, last teaching Christian brother in Ireland.[81]

Damien Brennan

The The Christian Brothers, first performed in 1975 and written by Ron Blair, is a one-man show depicting a Christian Brother teaching at a Catholic school in Australia in the 1950s, focusing much on the Brother's use of corporal punishment.[82]

play

In the 1985 film , Liam Neeson plays a Christian brother

Lamb

The 1985 song All I Remember written by Mick Hanley, mentions Christian brothers

Moving Hearts

1991 single N17, refers to "when I left the Christian brother school"

The Saw Doctors

The television miniseries is a fictional story based on real events of sexual abuse that took place at Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, an orphanage run by the Christian Brothers.[83]

The Boys of St. Vincent

The 1993 film , based Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors the 1974 book documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which contained rugby players from the Christian brother school Stella Maris College, Montevideo

Alive!

In 1994, the released "The unforgiven: Mount Cashel, five years later," a documentary that profiled several of Mount Cashel's victims.[84]

CBC

The 2016 film , is about a coming of age drama where a boy moves from a private fee-paying school to a Christian brother school "Synge Street"

Sing Street

In 2022, an episode of the CBC television series discussed the real-time impact that the initial revelations of the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal had on Newfoundland society in the 1980s.

Son of a Critch

Catholic religious order

Catholic spirituality

Presentation Brothers

Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand

Consecrated life

List of Christian Brothers schools

and The Child Migrant's Trust

Margaret Humphreys

Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

Abuse by priests in Roman Catholic orders

Davies, K. (1994) When Innocence Trembles: The Christian Brothers Orphanage Tragedy. (Angus & Robertson: Sydney)  0-207-18419-4

ISBN

Normoyle, M. C. A Tree is Planted: The Life and Times of Edmund Rice (Congregation of Christian Brothers: n.l., 1976)

Humphreys, Margaret. Empty Cradles. Corgi, 1996.  0-552-14164-X

ISBN

Catholic Encyclopædia

Christian Brothers on Edmund Rice

Edmund Rice Christian Brothers North America

Edmund Rice Education Beyond Borders

Edmund Rice Foundation Australia