Despite parish church and school being destroyed, Haitian parish aids other quake victims
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Not much remains of St. Gerard Church, located on a steep hill in Port-au-Prince, but Redemptorist Father Abellard Thomas says it's his parish, and he wants to keep it functioning as much as possible.
The church is little more than a pile of bricks and metal, one of thousands of buildings in the Haitian capital that collapsed during the 45-second earthquake Jan. 12. The parish's school crumpled as well: It still entombs the bodies of dozens of students and teachers.
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