{"id":110083,"date":"2025-10-29T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110083\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:50:11","slug":"meet-br-richard-hendrick-the-facebook-friar-who-wrote-a-thesis-on-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110083\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Br Richard Hendrick, the Facebook friar\u00a0who wrote a thesis on Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Brother Richard Hendrick became a global sensation during lockdown after publishing a poem about the pandemic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brother Richard Hendrick was elected provincial minister of the Irish Capuchin Franciscans in June, succeeding Brother Kevin Crowley. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/107692324.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brother Richard Hendrick was elected provincial minister of the Irish Capuchin Franciscans in June, succeeding Brother Kevin Crowley. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With his long beard and his distinctive brown habit, Brother Richard Hendrick cuts a distinctive figure. He is a priest-friar of the Irish Capuchin Franciscan Province and, during Covid lockdown, became a global sensation with the publication of his poem about the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He has since written two bestselling books about spirituality (he signs them with beautiful handwriting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brother Richard Hendrick became a global sensation during lockdown after publishing a poem about the pandemic Brother Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12780,615,93,823,61,60,12782,66900],"class_list":["post-110083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-catholic-church","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pope-francis","tag-pope-francis-in-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}