WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Survivors of Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake face growing mental health challenges that pose serious risks to the country's recovery, said a priest-psychologist working in makeshift tent camps around Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. "Vulnerable people before Jan. 12 have become more fragile, and their conditions have worsened," said Father Eddy Eustache, a Haitian priest who directs mental health and psychosocial services for Partners in Health in Haiti. In a May 26 e-mail message to Catholic News Service, he responded to questions about his work.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CNS) -- The violence that shook Jamaica's capital in late May stems from a combination of economic woes, drugs, corruption and the country's history of power politics, said church leaders. Jamaicans "have spawned an unhealthy situation of dependency and lawlessness," Kingston Archbishop Donald Reece wrote in a letter to church workers in the country.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Year for Priests draws to a close, Pope Benedict XVI said a priest's foremost role is to be a shepherd to his flock, and he asked the faithful to support their priests in their task of bringing people closer to God. At his regular weekly audience in St. Peter's Square May 26, the pope said priests should follow Jesus, who he called the "supreme shepherd of souls," in their mission to "take care of the people of God, be teachers of the faith, animating and sustaining the community of Christians." The pope quoted St.