“The hour is serious, poverty is increasing; the common good is threatened,” Haiti’s bishops wrote. “The country is on the brink of collapse!”

“We all know that canon law has to be changed so that it stops protecting the priesthood of ordained men over the lives of children," Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of BishopAccountability.org, told reporters.

Daily news and analysis of the historic gathering of bishops from 130 countries for a summit on the protection of children

In times like these, the “virtuous speech” counseled by St. Francis de Sales in his The Devout Life is downright countercultural