The bishop of Toledo, Ohio, has prohibited parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which conducts breast cancer research

It was the third episcopal ordination this year arranged by China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs that had not received papal approval.

The move followed the publication of the Cloyne Report on clerical sexual abuse and "denotes the seriousness of the situation," the Vatican said.

Archbishop Pietro Sambi was a career diplomat who also served as ambassador to Israel and Palestine.

The Indian bishops spoke a day after three bombs in Mumbai left at least 17 people dead and more than 140 injured.

The bishops said that true definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman “cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs...will continue to be ridiculed."