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Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — January 15, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email to a friend Print Haiti's new cardinal is known as a tireless worker, an advocate for the people and someone who never forgot his impoverished childhood. Haitian Catholic leaders see the choice seen as recognition of the church's work following a devastating earthquake that struck four years ago to the day of the papal announcement.

The quake killed an estimated , people and left 1. It killed the archbishop of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and toppled the city's iconic cathedral. People who know Langlois told Catholic News Service that he worked tirelessly after the January earthquake and that he represents the face of new Haitian church dedicated to working with the country's most vulnerable residents.

It's recognition of the work the church has been undertaking with the people in very difficult circumstances since the earthquake," Msgr. Since the earthquake, Langlois has advocated for the church to take a leading role in providing schooling for impoverished children, said Fr. The news that Langlois was among the 19 new cardinals who will be elevated in a consistory at the Vatican Feb.

In a country where the church has been marked by its involvement in politics, the naming of Langlois was seen as acknowledgment of the church's work, rather than its politics. Haiti's political struggles have been marked by the Duvalier family regime, a father-son dictatorship that lasted three decades before Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown in