"There are many terrible scenarios that are pointing to war," Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said.

John Garvey, president of Catholic University, said the school will be taking a stand against the "culture of hooking up" by phasing out coed dorms.

“If the military objective is really regime change, that’s hard to justify in Catholic approaches to humanitarian intervention,” said one ethicist.

Deacon Bernard V. Nojadera has been named to head the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.

 “They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden," said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.