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 ...

But when Monsignor Roger Landry — director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA — visited the colony this week, he said it was an honor. At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On May 10, the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with Hansen’s disease patients in the leper colony ...