Father Rick Frechette, a Passionist priest and medical doctor who has served the poor in Haiti for more than 20 years, will speak on the aftermath of the January earthquake at St. Paul of the Cross monastery church on Pittsburgh’s South Side the first weekend in May.
He will speak at the 6 p.m. Mass Saturday, May 1, and the 8 and 10 a.m. Masses on Sunday and give a presentation Tuesday, May 4, at 7 p.m. in the church. All are welcome.
Father Frechette oversees St. Damien Hospital, Haiti’s only free pediatric hospital, in Port-au-Prince. He also heads an orphanage with more than 500 children in Kenscoff, Haiti, and the St. Luke missions, which operates 18 street-schools and clinics and provides running water and food to residents of the city’s slums.
He is the author of Haiti: The God of Tough Places, the Lord of Burnt Men
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