Ms. Deveney said the men learned informally that the church objected to the comments, and that "the cardinal would not go to Rome".
Though the church objected to its inclusion in the Murray Hill Historic District, Mr. McCluskey allowed that the building had grown on him, as had the notion that its maintenance was part of the church's spiritual calling.
While advocates of federal spending for such research point to the promise of new treatments or cures for ills like Parkinson's disease and diabetes, anti-abortion groups, conservatives and the Roman Catholic Church object on moral grounds to using stem cells extracted from embryos, even those at fertility clinics that might otherwise be discarded.
Police warned riders about using their machines on the roads and churches objected on the basis that it enticed boys away from Sunday School.
Many of these employers, like churches, object on moral grounds to providing contraceptive coverage.
He said his jaw dropped when Obama specifically cited "the shards of glass" from the Birmingham church as objects his daughters should see in the forthcoming museum.
Their guest lodge, Arendehoogte, which means Eagle Heights in Afrikaans, was publicly vilified by the local Dutch Reformed church, which objected to the couple welcoming gay tourists.
"Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion" at the Museum of Biblical Art samples the Tiffany Studios' enormous production of stained-glass windows as well as all kinds of other church-related objects, including crosses, chalices, candlesticks, baptismal fonts and chandeliers.
Mr. Carlin's own block is also home to Corpus Christi Church and its school, his alma mater, both of them frequent targets of his unprintable irreverence, and the church had objected strenuously to the original measure.
