Dear family and friends,

I would like to tell you briefly a few stories from Haiti, realizing that the recent events in Minnesota, Dallas and France already wound our hearts and trouble our minds.

For the past number of years, as our earth overheats, we have been living through drastic changes in worldwide weather patterns, and seeing the ensuing destructive effects.

Published on Dec 24, 2012

Father Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor, and then built a modern pediatric medicine facility Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of our Agents for Change series on the constant challenges Frechette has faced.

Passionist Provincial, Fr. Robert Joerger, C.P., on visitation in Haiti in March 2014.

It was a long, hard way that she walked, the mother of Ronel.

Hello my dear friends and family

34 years ago today i was ordained a priest

34 years of trying to be light
using my God given strengths and talents
and in spite of my character and my sins