The latest of the four Amazon activists to be killed was Adelino Ramos, a farmer and leader of the Corumbiara Peasant Movement.

"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.

Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the world's Gypsies no longer be subjected to prejudice, oppression and rejection.