Father Rick looks out the window at the border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti - "this side gets the shortstops, this side gets the cholera."
Father Rick meeting volunteers from Port-au-Prince's general hospital. (Actress Maria Bello, background).
Sean Penn and CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss how to save Haiti outside general hospital.
Father Rick scouts the damage in Port-au-Prince.
Port-au-Prince's buildings look like they're ready to fall from the push of a hand.
What's left of Haiti's Ministry of Justice.
Haitians out for a stroll among the ruins.
Marc Andy Denard waits with his brother and mother, who has a shattered femur, for their luck to change in the tent city on the grounds of St. Damien Hospital.
Haitian rapper See You nursing a broken leg in St. Damien's tent city.
Angels survey the earthquake damage in Father Rick's chapel.
Children wave to visitors standing next to an open sewer in Cite Soleil, considered one of the most dangerous slums in the world.
Father Rick attracts a crowd in Cite Soleil, a place where his missions bring rice and water, and where he also often negotiates with gangsters for the release of the kidnapped.
Jean Yves Rait squats in what's left of his house in Cite Soleil. Jean and his family now live under a tarp next to an open sewer.
Father Rick stands in truck headlights, saying a blessing for his dead archbishop friend at the earthquake-ravaged Cathedral. While around the corner, dogs feast on the skulls of two cadavers.
A Haitian man makes his bed in the middle of the street.
Father Rick prepares to do a blessing at the downed administration building which killed two people.
Father Rick prays for the dead: one of his young American volunteers and the visiting brother of another volunteer.
A dead child in the morgue at Father Rick's St. Damien hospital.
Missionary Vern Conaway offers Hail Mary's for a dead infant in the hospital morgue. Every morning after chapel, Father Rick or a volunteer go to the morgue to bless the departed.
Vern blesses the dead, laying on a truck lift in the back of St. Damien's facility. Bodies must sometimes be moved outside due to lack of refrigeration.
Scranton doctor Peter Cognetti volunteers his services in the hospital ER. Cognetti distributed money to Haitian patients and orderlies like Sinatra at the Sands.
Marc Andy Denard wears his best blue blazer in the sweltering heat, hoping to look good for a refugee-status hearing that will likely never come.
Haitian med students outside the guesthouse at St. Damien. Many will now not be able to complete their studies on account of their med schools being destroyed.
American nurses bring baby formula to an amputee in the mini-tent city at St. Damien. This woman lost more than her arm. She also lost two of her children in the earthquake.
Father Rick conducts mass with the new earthquake-inspired ventilation system.
A young amputee learns how to use a wheelchair in the pediatric ward at St. Damien. Many of the amputations at St. Damien were performed with tools such as a jiggly-saw, which looks like a piano wire with teeth.
An amputee girl learns how to use crutches. Roughly 70 percent of the operations at St. Damien involved lopping off arms and legs.
The streets of Haiti look like a giant ashcan, in which everything is potential kindling.
Haitian "looters" run from police, afraid that they will shoot to kill.
Haitian men try to walk off with whatever's left in the wreckage, which isn't much.
Father Rick (middle) making his rounds on a motorcycle taxi.
Motorcycle taxis head out to Titanyen, where the dead are being dumped.
The dead have been dumped and left above-ground at Titanyen, or the Fields of Less Than Nothing.
Cows graze among the white wooden crosses of Titanyen. Father Rick has had to stop using the crosses, since locals steal them to use for cooking.
Father Rick checks on his gravediggers at Titanyen, readying for the next day's burial.
Father Rick in the scrubland cemetery of Titanyen. He has buried over 10,000 people here, and doesn't know a one of their names. Smoke fills the sky from the hills which are being ravaged by brush-fires.
Father Rick at the morning doctor's meeting at St. Damien. He's not just a priest, he's a doctor as well.
A volunteer loads the cardboard coffins for the massive burial at Titanyen.
Haitian volunteers prepare themselves for the grim business of removing the dead from the general hospital morgue.
Father Rick lights a Marlboro Red, trying to mask the smell of the dead.
Father Rick says a blessing for the dead at the general hospital morgue.
Volunteers prepare the rosaries that will be dropped in coffins and body bags.
A Haitian morgue volunteer seems to have escaped the penitentiary, run by the Department of Erections.
Father Rick prepares a coffin liner, inscribed with "In Paradisum deducant te angeli" ("May the Angels Lead You Into Paradise").
A maggot-eaten corpse in the city morgue, where people go out just as they came in, without the benefit of cleaning or embalming.
A cardboard coffin lowered into the pits of Titanyen. In Haiti, death with dignity might entail five children to one coffin.
A coffin being unloaded off a tap-tap.
Sliding coffins to their final rest.
"The Grateful Dead" play graveside.
Father Rick helps bury the dead in his priestly vestments.
A long haul from the truck to the grave.
The Grateful Dead play "I'll Fly Away."
Rafael and Fred rest for a moment, their hair turning chalky white from the dirt falling down into the grave.
Father Rick assists with the dead - he doesn't believe in asking anyone to do something that he's unwilling to do himself.
Gloves and protective clothing are buried along with the dead.
"The evening has come. The busy world is hushed. The fever of life is over."
