The synod we really need
SIR – With all the attention on the Amazon synod and the suggestion that married men might be ordained to address the problem of a shortage of priests in the region, no one seems to have given much thought to the ongoing murder of priests in other regions, notably Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Rest of the World news analysis, November 1).
While influential Western clerics virtue-signal about the environment and worship wooden idols in Rome, scarcely a week goes by without a report of courageous, holy men in far-flung parishes being killed simply for being priests.
