11.29pm GMT Julia Gillard's "captain's pick", former Olympic indigenous athlete Nova Peris attended the ecumenical church service this morning.
About 500 relatives of victims are attending the ecumenical service, with hundreds more watching on large screens outside the cathedral and in a neighbouring church.
In 1954, with the World Council of Churches meeting in Evanston, Stritch wrote a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to attend the ecumenical meeting, instead asking them "to pray for our separated brothers and to beg God to give them the gift of Catholic faith".
I'm talking about initiatives such as the meeting between the Israeli President [Shimon] Peres and the Palestinian President Abu Mazen promised by Pope Francis, which was also attended by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
On Tuesday, Cardinal Levada said he had asked people involved in ecumenical dialogue to attend the Anglican news conference, but they were not in Rome.
The letters and other documents leave what Mr. Forcellino says is a substantial trail for the painting from Colonna to an English cardinal, Reginald Pole, a cousin of Henry VIII and another member of the spirituali, who appears to have taken it with him as a devotional object when he attended the Council of Trent, the 16th-century Catholic ecumenical conclave that began the Counter-Reformation.
The German cabinet, headed by Mr. Schroder, said it would attend an ecumenical service for victims of the crash Wednesday at a chapel on the Expo grounds.
A report in the Boldface Names column yesterday misspelled the surname of a religious leader who attended an ecumenical breakfast with Michael R. Bloomberg at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Princess Royal will attend an ecumenical service at Gretna along with Ms Sturgeon on Friday and a service at Rosebank Cemetery in Leith on Saturday.
If the president wants to attend an ecumenical prayer breakfast, can't he find a sponsoring group that doesn't export hatred?
But tonight, he attended an ecumenical meeting given by Diodoros I, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, that for all its warmth also underlined the deep divisions among Christians in the Holy Land.
