A 7.0 earthquake 13 miles from Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, brought untold damage and hardship to the impoverished country. With chaos and devastation everywhere the country’s infrastructure collapsed, overwhelming its emergency services and paralysing both local and foreign rescues. Among the casualties was Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, together, according to the Papal Nuncio, with hundreds of seminarians and priests who died in the ruins of the National Cathedral or elsewhere. (Nat. Post, Aug. 14).

            Some people ask: “Where is God in all this? The answer, of course, is that God is in the response.” (Found on First Things website by Dr. Robert Moynihan, Newsflash, Jan. 14).

            Among Canadian contacts missing are Father Luc Jolicoeur, a Haitian native, working in the Good Shepherd school and orphanage associated with the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd in Toronto and Hamilton; and Father Renée Giroux from Windsor, ON, who ran a mission (a parish and several schools all destroyed) in Port au Prince (Nat. Post, Aug. 16).

            Share Life, the fundraising arm of Toronto’s Catholic Archdiocese, has launched a donation drive for Caritas Haiti, which runs 200 medical clinics in Haiti (Toronto Sun, Jan. 15). To make a donation online, visit: www.sharelife.org and click on “Haiti Earthquake relief.” To send a donation by mail, please make cheques payable to: “Share Life Haiti Relief” and send to: Share Life, 1155 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON  M4T 1W2.

            Aid to the Church in Need. To make a donation online, visit: www.acn-aed-ca.org/1-anglais/eindex2.htm. To send a donation by mail, write the cheques payable to: Aid to the Church in Need, P.O. Box 670, Station H, Montreal, QC H3G 2M6, but mention Haiti Relief.