text: Haiti has needed help for generations. That it needs help now is not new. But help will be next to useless without a massive multi-decade multi-generational infusion of leadership, money, infrastructure repair, ecological education, health maintenance, education, etc, etc, etc, ----- Haiti is a mess and has been for a long, long time.
  
  Perhaps the Vatican can fund the rebuilding of Haiti, an overwhelmingly Catholic populated nation. It would be corporal and spiritual acts of mercy acted out for the world to see. The RCC surely has the funds and, I suspect, access to the needed expertise. If the Vatican won't help an RCC population in dire need, then the Vatican need not exist.
  
  I am not in favor of benevolent dictatorships or church/state coalitions, but either or both might be Haiti's only way out of their decades-long, even centuries-long mess.