Deacon Thomas Dietsch and his wife, Dorne (Photo by Mary Chalupsky, Catholic Transcript)
Had intended to mention this weeks ago.
Out of all the tragedy in Haiti there was one story of survival that struck a personal note for me. Deacon Chuck Dietsch from my family’s parish Sacred Heart Church in Southbury, Conn. narrowly escaped after he and another volunteer became trapped in a mission house they were working at outside Port-au-Prince. The house collapsed around them. Thankfully, after ten hours of digging, local volunteers from the mission managed to free them.
What I find most inspiring is Chuck’s determination to return to Haiti to continue the mission work. As he puts it, “I’m definitely going back.”
The entire story is detailed in the archdiocese’s newspaper The Catholic Transcript.
