Bishop Cantu's letter comes as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson begins his time as the chief foreign affairs adviser to President Donald Trump.

Pew Research Center found that warmer feelings toward various religions were expressed by people in all of the participating major religious groups.

Those opposing the order say it would legalize discrimination and was too far-reaching

The intention to change "is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin."

Father Romano Gambalunga said that while "Lucia is already a saint in the eyes" of many people, "the prudent path of the church is that she is proposed to all, not just those who believe."

The company called the religion argument a "last-minute delay tactic."