Permanent Memories

As Father Dom reflects on Katrina’s aftermath, his memories invariably take him back to the horrible war years. To escape from South Vietnam, he spent five days and nights in a crowded fishing boat on the China Sea. The only navigational instruments were fishermen onboard who read the stars as best they could. “Better to die than be caught,” he told fearful fellow passengers. And so he wasn’t afraid of Katrina, he said, because he knew what to do: Look past the storm’s destruction to see a brighter day―and reach out to frightened, hurting people with kindness and compassion.

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