Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, speaking at a press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican News YouTube ChannelRome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg and a key leader of the Synod on Synodality, said the Catholic Church s teaching on a male-only priesthood is not infallible and a future pope could allow women priests.The cardinal, 64, addressed the topic of the ordination of women, homosexuality, women in the Church, obedience to the pope, and the German "Synodal Way" in an interview with Glas Koncila, a Croatian Catholic weekly, published March 27."Pope Francis does not want the ordination of women, and I am completely obedient to that. But people continue to discuss it," Hollerich said.The cardinal questioned the infallibility of papal documents such as St. John Paul II s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which affirmed the Church s perennial teaching that only men may be ordained to H
null / Credit: NaruFoto/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability to organize on campus and set their own standards for leaders if the Biden administration s proposed rule change is finalized, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.The existing rules are "commonsense protection for faith-based student organizations that have faced discrimination on many public college campuses for nearly four decades," the general counsel s office of the U.S. bishops conference said in March 23 comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Education."By protecting students of all faiths, the existing regulations ensure that students of all religious faiths will be welcome on public college campuses, thereby enhancing authentic religious diversity on those campuses," the bishops letter said. To rescind the rules would tell religious student gr
null / Public DomainSt. Louis, Mo., Mar 28, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).A new poll of U.S. residents suggests that certain values such as religiosity and having children have receded in importance over the past 25 years, while people s opinion of the importance of money increased during the same period. When asked about certain values and whether they consider them to be "very important," 39% said "religion" was very important to them. By contrast, in 1998, 62% of respondents to the same question said religion was very important to them. The poll, released March 27, was conducted earlier this month by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and funded by the Wall Street Journal. Faith was one of several indicators of more traditional values that the survey showed are less important to Americans than they were 25 years ago. The 2023 survey found that these values are less important than in 2019, the last time the su
A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy posted signs as part of a billboard campaign in a neighborhood near the Vatican on March 28, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy has sponsored a billboard campaign in a neighborhood near the Vatican.The campaign includes about a dozen billboards in four different designs. They were put up March 28 and will stay in place for 15 days, according to its organizers.Each billboard features a quotation in support of the Latin Mass from either Pope Benedict XVI, St. John Paul II, or Pope Pius V.Across the top, the billboards say: "For love of the pope. For the peace and unity of the Church. For the liberty of the Traditional Latin Mass."A QR code on the billboards takes readers to an article about the Latin Mass from the website SummorumPontificum.org.A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy posted signs as part of a billb
Colorado State Capitol. / f11photo / Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).The Colorado state Senate last week passed a three-bill "Safe Access to Protected Health Care" package that would radically expand abortion access in the state.The package now advances to the state House, which is likely to hold a vote on it this week. Given that Colorado has a Democratic majority in its House and a Democrat governor, the bills seem likely to become law.These measures would further expand abortion in Colorado, a state that already has some of the most pro-abortion laws in the U.S.If enacted, the three bills would mandate employers fully cover abortions until birth, ban treatments to reverse the abortion pill, greatly restrict crisis pregnancy centers from advertising, and more.Crisis pregnancy centers, which typically offer pregnant women and families free resources and baby materials, are specifically targeted in the new abortion package. The bill covering crisis