TODAY the Church honours St Damien of Molokai, a selfless priest who served those with Hansen’s disease or leprosy in Hawaii. The Belgian priest sacrificed his life and health to become a spiritual ...

Kalaupapa Peninsula sits on Molokai’s northern coast ... Notable figures like Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope provided care and improved living conditions. The colony was officially closed in ...

At a leper colony in Vietnam, Pontifical Mission Societies USA President Monsignor Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought ...

At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam, Landry celebrated Mass, brought Communion to people, and distributed food and sandals, working with St. Joseph’s Mission Charity. In one striking ...

Emotional testimony from the far corners of the world as the Pontifical Missions Society brings the Eucharist to those most ...

Gloss: It’s in the forest that a monkey dwells/No one builds a leper’s colony in town/ It’s in the forest that a monkey dwells.” Sadly, that is past like Shakespeare’s prologue ...

Just months before Linda Simon was due to be married to her fiancee Damien Conlon, her father Luke “lured” her to his house in regional NSW in February 2023, executing him over a property dispute.