The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church.

The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history.

There is no other reference than the local congregation for the " visible church " in Congregationalism.

Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council that approved the dogma of Pope as the visible head of the church, prime bishop over a hierarchy of clergy and believers

Suddenly Konstantis drew his pistol and fired, missing, the bullet sticking in the church wall where it is still visible today.

Theologically, his preaching expressed a strong belief in predestination that enabled him to declare an “ invisible church of the elect ", made up of those predestined to be saved, rather than in the “ visible ” Catholic Church ;.

Presbyterian and Reformed Christians believe that baptism, whether of infants or adults, is a " sign and seal of the covenant of grace ," and that baptism admits the party baptized into the visible church.

Being a member of the visible church does not guarantee salvation ; though it does provide the child with many benefits, including that of one's particular congregation consenting to assist in the raising of that child in " the way he should go, ( so that ) when he is old he will not turn from it.

Members of the visible church, including infants, are considered to be elect by faith unless and until they prove otherwise by committing apostasy.

Augustine of Hippo, Catholic saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the church understood " a visible sign of an invisible reality " of the rooster to include that as described by St. Augustine in DeOrdine as that which " in every motion of these animals unendowed with reason there was nothing ungraceful since, of course, another higher reason was guiding everything they did ".

Fragments of mosaics from the first church are visible on the floor, which is usually covered by water after heavy rains ( together with the crypt ).

His search for the true church eventually carried him out of Congregationalism, the Baptists, and any visible church.

The wooden addition has been removed and a portion of the brick Gothic Revival church is visible at right.

* Chiesa di San Benedetto The St. Benedict church was originally part of monastery from 7th – 9th centuries, connected to a massive aqueduct whose remains are still visible today.

Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ( The Stump ), the largest parish church in England with one of the highest towers in England visible in the flat lands of Lincolnshire for miles.

There is an amusement park, a telecommunications tower ( Torre de Collserola ), and a Catholic church, the Temple de Sagrat Cor, at the top, all of which are visible from most of the city.

Remains of the principal buildings erected by Herod and the medieval town are still visible today, including the city walls, the castle and a Crusader cathedral and church.

The spire visible belongs to a former church which has been converted into a pub

The church remains a highly visible and sometimes controversial presence in many parts of the world.

The original parish church alongside the abbey was demolished, though the foundations are still visible.

* North Church – historic church, the steeple of which is visible from most of Portsmouth

They say, for example, that the rubrics have reduced the number of genuflections and other gestures associated with reverence for the sacred elements ; that phrases such as " spiritual drink " are deliberately ambiguous ; and that the GIRM directs the removal of the tabernacle from its previous place on the main altar to another part of the church ( albeit one that is " truly noble, prominent, readily visible, beautifully decorated and suitable for prayer " – GIRM 314 ).

The parish church was clearly visible in the background.

Many of the buildings are low-standing but the walls of the church still stand to full height and the gothic French idealism thrust into its design and architecture is visible.

Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.

Zodiacal light and the gegenschein give some evidence for such a dust blanket, a phenomenon also to be expected if the dust before capture is in circular orbits about the sun, as indicated by the trend of the smaller visible meteors.

To maintain their intermediate position in the larger society, it is not only necessary that members of this population be `` visible '', but that their numbers be great enough to be recognized as a separate, distinct grouping or system in society.

Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.

Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; ;

In the next century which is the beginning of the Classical period, it was considered that beauty in visible things as in everything else, consisted of symmetry and proportions.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

North of the Arctic Circle, the sun is above the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year ( and therefore visible at midnight ) and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year.

Amateur astronomy is usually associated with viewing the night sky when most celestial objects and events are visible, but sometimes amateur astronomers also operate during the day for events such as sunspots and solar eclipses.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.

As of a storm in spring 2009, the sign is no longer there although the supporting posts are still visible.

At this time, the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.

It is possible to view the main city in panorama, with the Sagrada Família and the Montjuïc area visible at a distance.

Generally the visible spectrum ( vmag ) is used for the apparent magnitude, but other spectrums such as the near-infrared J-band magnitude are also used.