McBrien
Proper noun
Meaning
McBrien (plural McBriens)
A surname from Irish.
Examples
According to McBrien, the majority of the bishops were not so much interested in a formal definition of papal infallibility as they were in strengthening papal authority and, because of this, were willing to accept the agenda of the infallibilists.
Kimball (1992), p. 70, and McBrien (1998), p. 164 Bolton and Wodehouse were by then engaged in other work, and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse rewrote the book almost completely.
McBrien (1998), p. 209. They were soon reunited by an accident suffered by Porter.
McBrien (1998), p. 26 He became class valedictorian and was rewarded by his grandfather with a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany.
McBrien (1998), p. 65 For Porter, it brought a respectable heterosexual front in an era when homosexuality was not publicly acknowledged.
McBrien, Lives of the Popes, 45. The slab covering his tomb was discovered in 1909.