About time.

Today, Catholic bishops have gathered in the Vatican for the start of a three-week meeting. Among the topics will be whether to allow married men to become priests. About time they at least discuss the possibility, we reckon. The move would be seen as a way to modernise the clergy, while also tackling the international shortage of priests. And interestingly, Pope Francis has previously indicated that he is open to the idea. Also up for discussion at the meeting? Making official roles for women in the Catholic Church. Speaking about the Amazon, Pope Francis condemned the destructive "interests" he blamed for the fires. "The fire set by interests that destroy, like the fire that recently devastated Amazonia, is not the fire of the Gospel," he said before the bishops from the nine countries of the pan-Amazonian region and representatives of indigenous peoples. "The fire of God is warmth that attracts and gathers into unity. It is fed by sharing, not by profits." "The fire that destroys, on the other hand, blazes up when people want to promote only their own ideas, form their own group, wipe out differences in the attempt to make everyone and everything uniform."