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Catholics pray during Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Benedictine College students from left Ashley Lestone, Hannah Moore, Niki Wood, and Madeline Hays share a laugh as they look through their prayer books before evening prayers in a room which they converted to a chapel in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Hays takes the church’s rules seriously, from pre-marital sex to confession. She’s seriously considering becoming a nun. But she also worries about poverty and America’s wastefulness and the way Americans –including herself – can find themselves slotted into the political divide without even knowing it. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Benedictine College student Niki Wood looks through her prayer book before evening prayers with her roommates in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Rev. Gabriel Landis prepares Communion during a Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pope Benedict XVI lies on the ground before the altar during a Good Friday ceremony for the Passion of Christ, inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, April 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Danilo Schiavella, Pool, File)
Benedictine College student Niki Wood looks through her prayer book before evening prayers with her roommates in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. In a deeply secular America, where an ever-churning culture provides few absolute answers, Benedictine offers the reassurance of clarity. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pope Benedict XVI touches the cross hanging around his neck as he meets journalists during the flight from Rome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, May 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
Students leave after attending a Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Many At a time when U.S. college enrollment is shrinking, the conservative Catholic school has expanded over the last 15 years. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pope Benedict XVI hoists a monstrance containing a Holy Host during a Corpus Domini celebration outside St. Mary Major Basilica to mark the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, in Rome, Thursday, May 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
FILE - Participants in the youth jubilee follow a night vigil led by Pope John Paul II, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2000, in Rome's suburb of Tor Vergata, for World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
People receive communion during Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Many Students, many of whom grew up in conservative Catholic families, jokingly call it “the Benedictine bubble.” And it might be a window into the future of the Catholic Church in America. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A woman sits alone before Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Benedictine College student Hannah Moore extinguishes candles after evening prayers with her roommates in a room which they converted to a chapel in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Rev. Gabriel Landis officiates a Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pope John Paul II greets participants of World Youth Day as he arrives for Mass at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, Colo., Aug. 15, 1993. (AP Photo/Jeff Robbins, File)
A man prays during Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Many Catholic parishes are becoming more conservative as they move away from modernizing reforms that swept the church more than 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Nuns gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Pilgrims and faithful gathered in Rome the day before Sunday's ceremony where Pope Francis elevated John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - A World Youth Day participant kisses the ring of Pope John Paul II at Mile High Stadium in Denver on Aug. 12, 1993. (AP Photo/Jeff Robbins, File)
FILE - Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful to deliver his "Urbi et Orbi" message, Latin for ''to the city and to the world", as he appears from the velvet-draped central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Youths wave goodbye to the helicopter carrying Pope John Paul II, as the Pontiff leaves the grounds of Tor Vergata after leading a Sunday Mass for some 2 million youths on Aug. 20, 2000. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)
FILE - Pope John XXIII waves a hand in blessing at Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Oct. 11, 1962. The Council opened earlier in the day. In the background is Monsignor Enrico Dante, prefect of the Vatican ceremonial office. (AP Photo/Raoul Fornezza, File)
A woman and child kneel during Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pictures of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI are distributed outside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. For a second day, lines of people wanting to honor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's service to the Catholic church snaked around St. Peter's Square on Tuesday to view the late retired pontiff's body. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
Brothers Leven Barton, left, Florian Rumpza, center, and Angelus Atkinson, sing in Latin during Catholic Mass at Benedictine College Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - St. Maria Goretti parishoner Anna Buss, 10, pauses in front of a shrine to Pope John Paul II before Mass Saturday, April 2, 2005, in Madison, Wis. (John Maniaci/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
FILE - A painter outlines the Pope's nose on the side of a building in New York on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, a month before the visit of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Benedictine College students, from left, Madeline Hays, Niki Wood, Ashley Lestone and Hannah Moore gather for evening prayers in a room which they converted to a chapel in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Across the U.S., the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - Pope Paul VI sits on his throne before the altar in far background in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, as he delivers his first message to the world June 22, 1963, the day after he was elected Pontiff. 79 Cardinals are standing left and right at the seats and tables where they sat during the Conclave that elected Pope Paul VI. At the Pope's right stands Msgr. Enrico Dante, Prefect of the Pontific Ceremonies, and at his left side Msgr. Salvatore Capoferri, Master of the Pontific Ceremonies. (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)
FILE - Pope Francis holds the book of the Gospels as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to the crowd during a parade Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool, File)