The recent images of the violent‚ gang-led coup in Haiti are so lurid it's easy to forget about the innocent people caught in the chaos. But they're there‚ trying to go about their daily lives in a barely functioning society. So are the many charities trying to help them. Sending money to Haiti can seem like a fool's errand; the country seems to attract more than its share of foreign grifters and bloated‚ ineffectual NGOs. A doctor-priest finds hope amid the horror. Nobody is getting rich from the organizations founded and/or run by Father Rick Frechette‚ but they have enriched the lives of thousands of Haitians. In his more than 35 years in Haiti‚ Fr. Frechette has seen misery that few Americans can imagine. (Although this harrowing and vivid account written in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake will give you an idea.)He moved there after meeting Fr. William B. Wasson‚ founder of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos/Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs (NPH)‚ a mission helping poor children in Mexico‚ Central and South America‚ and the Caribbean.After working in a hospice for mothers dying of AIDS‚ the Connecticut-born Frechette went on to establish an orphanage. When he realized how badly his new home lacked doctors‚ he returned to America to get a medical degree‚ then came back to Haiti to oversee NPH's pediatric hospital‚ St. Damien's. In 2000‚ Fr. Frechette worked with young Haitians (many of whom began their lives in the orphanage he started‚ some of whom he delivered at St. Damien's) to found the St. Luke Foundation‚ a Haitian organization that provides health care and education to the poorest of the poor. Read Fr. Frechette's tribute to one such colleague and friend here. Despite all the people the foundation has helped‚ the temptation to despair is always present. For a long time‚ much of Fr. Frechette's ministry was simply to provide the nameless dead crowding the streets and morgues with a dignified burial: "Sometimes with horrible things‚ you really feel there is nothing you can do. Nothing. You’re just useless‚" Fr. Frechette has said. "But over time‚ you start seeing that to do the right thing no matter what has tremendous power.” No doubt the current situation in Haiti has done nothing to dispel that sense of futility. But Fr. Frechette and his team soldier on. NPH USA representative Jennifer Rayno gave Align this update:Despite the difficulty‚ St. Damien is one of few hospitals that continues to provide 24/7 care. We have implemented a rotation system that enables the staff‚ mainly medical personnel‚ to be on site for 24 hours or more to minimize moving back and forth as safely as possible. We have been in a red zone for some time and as a result we are receiving complicated and critical cases due to understandable hesitation.With lack of supplies and increased demands‚ expenses have risen exponentially. We would be grateful for any attention you can bring to the good work at St. Damien Hospital and our current pressing needs for medical supplies‚ food‚ water‚ and fuel for the generators that keep the hospital running. Folks can be directed to: www.nphusa.org/helpStDamien

A Utah couple has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes after they allegedly admitted to "engaging in sexual acts" with their teenage daughter.On Thursday‚ police in Provo received a disturbing call. A 15-year-old girl had phoned in to report that her stepfather‚ who later said he had raised her "since the day she was born‚" had been raping her for more than a year.The stepfather and the girl's mother‚ both in their 30s‚ allegedly approached the girl last year‚ when she was 14‚ and suggested they have "sexual experiences together" after learning that the girl had begun taking pictures of herself "in sexual situations" and then posting those images on Snapchat and in online chat rooms because she "want[ed] to meet and have sex with strangers‚" the affidavit said.The couple then allegedly purchased sex toys for the girl and showed her how to use them on herself. Other reports indicate the three took showers together as well and that the girl sometimes watched the couple having sex.The stepfather even allegedly copped to having sex with the girl. He and his wife apparently "decided that teaching the victim about sex‚ and engaging in sexual acts with the victim would be safer for her than having sex with strangers‚" the affidavit stated.Both have been charged with forcible sodomy‚ object rape‚ and forcible sexual abuse. The stepfather faces an additional count of rape. They are being held in Utah County Jail without bail because they pose a "substantial risk" to the four other children in their home.It is unclear whether the other children have been victimized as well. It is also unclear where those children are now living.Outlets are not naming the suspects to protect the identity of the girl.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If you’ve spent any time on X-that-used-to-be-Twitter‚ you know how it goes. Every couple of weeks‚ a spark becomes a blaze‚ and soon what started as the topic of a single post is trending. Recently‚ the topic was Catfish Tomboy. Catfish Tomboy has a real name‚ and it’s Hannah Barron‚ but I like Catfish Tomboy better. Catfish Tomboy is a 27-year-old woman who lives in Alabama. She has cute drawl and a TikTok account that she uses to document her life in the country and all the country things she does‚ including wrestling catfish out of the river with her bare hands. Humility is how we can forestall a future of crippling loneliness. A video of Catfish Tomboy helping her dad with a construction project raised the ire of X power-user Sameera Khan. To the stomach-turning sight of a healthy young woman talking about the house she's helping build‚ Khan had this response‚ which she shared with nearly quarter of a million followers: “American women are literally men.” That opinion was polarizing‚ as was doubtless Khan's intent‚ and it kept her in the spotlight by launching a "debate" on Catfish Tomboy"s virtues and vices as well as the virtues and vices of the rural Southern people she represents. Khan may have questioned Catfish Tomboy's femininity for clout‚ but plenty of her followers were more than willing to join in for no apparent gain. Any man attracted to her‚ one poster claimed‚ must be gay. Who is this monstrous creature they find so offputting? Their reaction tells us little about Catfish Tomboy — who is fresh-faced‚ adorable‚ family-oriented‚ and exuding a wholesome‚ All-American appeal — and much about the landscape in which we are living and in which we seek love. Courtship in 2024 is broken. Dating apps and social media have only served to exacerbate the chaos left in the wake of the Sexual Revolution. With nothing to guide them but "consent" and "fulfillment‚" both men and women wreak havoc on each other. Frustration leads to lashing out‚ usually in ways that only add to the confusion. We crave traditional sex roles without fully understanding them. For many young men‚ this results in a narrow focus on the superficial trappings of femininity‚ as especially as defined in the more brain-broken backwaters of the internet. So it is that they can miss all of Catfish Tomboy's considerable charms. What's missing here‚ as in much of online discourse‚ is humility. Those judging Catfish Tomboy can feel secure that they will not be judged in return. So they are free to hold her and others to whatever arbitrary and exacting standards are currently making the rounds. Maybe it's just trolling. But how we are online has a way of seeping into our real lives. "High standards" can easily become an excuse to avoid meeting women altogether. How many of these commenters are rejecting something — the love of a pretty tomboy who likes fishing with her dad — they've never had the courage to imagine‚ let alone pursue? Humility is how we can forestall a future of crippling loneliness. If humility means anything‚ it means a willingness to feel that we are not too good to take the love offered to us by decent‚ if imperfect‚ others. This is not to say we ought not to have standards; it is to say that those standards should be connected more to the real world than to the ephemeral opinions of online tastemakers. It is to say too that our standards should be tempered by the knowledge of our own shortcomings and deeply felt gratitude that some decent person would offer their love to us in the first place. In short‚ our ideals concerning femininity — and masculinity‚ for that matter — cannot be reduced to weapons wielded by fragile egos bent on winning the online shame wars. Instead they should guide us in finding good mates and building healthy families. Only when we can come together in this most "trad" of all pursuits will the endless sex wars end.

The Metroidvania genre is having something of a resurgence lately. Aside from recent launches like the acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and Ultros‚ we've also seen modern classics like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells come out and introduce new twists to the kind of design approach players expect. Frostleaf Games is continuing in this vein with its newly launched Slavania‚ a game that blends Hollow Knight style action and platforming with perilous enemy pursuit that resembles Monster Hunter. Continue reading Hollow Knight and Monster Hunter combine in new Metroidvania‚ out now

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