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Capponi, whose portrait is among those in the exhibition, was not given such prominent placement because of the commotion at the communion rail.

Anna Paston's brass was tucked away between two large tombs, obscured by the communion rail.

An ornate Communion rail divides the taproom, known as the Fellowship Hall.

Inside the church, the pews, altar, Communion rail and light fixtures from the original edifice have been preserved, but it’s the church’s role in the fight for racial freedom, and the pantheon of leaders who have spoken from its pulpit — from Booker T. Washington to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — that make this site hallowed ground.

A German cardinal, Walter Kasper, led the camp that wanted “pastoral and spiritual procedures” for admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the communion rail.