A year after Haiti quake, there is hope despite the devastation (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cynthia Emmanuel hoped the pacifier would soothe her infant son for the hour.
She and her husband, Philippe, had come to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul on Tuesday afternoon seeking solace in church ritual and comfort in Cardinal Justin Rigali's words on the first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. The couple's 2-year-old nephew was among the almost 230,000 killed last year when a 7.0-magnitude quake decimated the capital of Port-au-Prince.
"We want to remember our friends and family," said Cynthia Emmanuel, 35, who works at the University of Pennsylvania. "Last year at this time, we were wondering what happened to our family. Today, we are thinking about the ones who died and the ones who are still there, trying to rebuild their lives."
That rebuilding has been agonizingly slow and, critics say, shamefully inadequate.