Finding hope in the rubble of Haiti

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Sister Limeteze Pierre-Gilles, who grew up in Haiti and is a novice with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in St. Louis, shed a tear as she told of a friend whose baby daughter was killed when she was trapped in their collapsed house. The mother could hear the baby crying in the rubble but could not rescue her. The babysitter was also killed.

There is hope in spite of the suffering in Haiti since an earthquake hit there Jan. 12, several people with ties to the Caribbean nation said.

Sister Limeteze Pierre-Gilles, a novice at the School Sisters of Notre Dame motherhouse in Lemay, tried to hold her emotions in check when telling of aunts, cousins and friends she has not heard from since the quake. "I don't know if they're still alive or not."