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Recent Events in Haiti People took to the streets protesting the spike in gas prices, the prime minister and members of his cabinet stepped down. Haiti is choked by another crisis. But it would be too simple to say that the rage manifested in the protests were only about the 40 to 50% increase in…

Haiti, oh Haiti…..  There is so much I would like to say, but cannot express in words. Ayiti cheri, I love you with all that I am. Thanks to you I have become more than I ever thought I would be, more of myself, more of myself with others, more of myself with the world.…

  I had the great fortune to spend the Easter Triduum in Jean Bellune, a remote rural area in the Grand’Anse, at the parish of St. Bernard de Clairvaux. This has truly been a conversion experience and made my faith come alive again. It had gotten kind of dry and perfunctory, but my living the…

Before I came to Haiti, I only knew poinsettias growing in a pot. Here in Haiti they get over six feet tall and they always bloom in December. No wonder we adopted them as Christmas flowers. While I am enjoying myself in cold and wintry Chicago, I think about why I am in Haiti. And…