"There one finds, even among groups usually identified as materialistic — the media, entertainment, business, politics, artists, writers — an undeniable openness to the divine," he continued, according to an English translation of the speech, which he delivered in Italian at the closed-door gathering of the church's top prelates.
The medieval cathedral is a gathering of the Church of Scotland.
Santa Mira, Calif., the small town where the invasion begins, lacks even the symbolically opposed gathering points — the church and the saloon — of "High Noon's" Hadleyville.
An evening candidates' forum was billed as the first such gathering of the year, filling a church auditorium with Republican activists and a crush of reporters so large that it seemed like election eve.
The consecrations may complicate the Anglican world's next big event, the triennial gathering of the primates, the heads of the church provinces, in Porto, Portugal, next month.
When, however, at a gathering of bishops and other dignitaries of the church in Rome in 1862 and again at another in 1867 it had been suggested that the doctrine of infallibility should be authoritatively defined, Dupanloup had led a successful opposition to the project.
In the packed courtyard of the church, mourners are gathering for a memorial service.
Mr. Reidy said from Washington, where he was attending the annual Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference, a gathering of church finance officials.
It is a point I will underline this week when I address a special gathering of church leaders, City of London financiers, security experts and the public at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
In Philadelphia in 1976, at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, an interfaith gathering of scholars and church leaders that was devoted to ecumenism amid a decade often characterized by division, he stood to address a large crowd.
The gathering of the Primates has no power to "suspend" a member church, in any event.
