In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints ruled that a Hawaiian woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle linked to her prayers to Father Damien De Veuster. This led to the missionary ...
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 at ...
COMMENTARY: Robert Louis Stevenson and Princess Diana each found themselves transformed by encounters, direct or indirect, with St. Damien of Molokai and St. Teresa of Calcutta. From L to R: Robert ...
Sunday evening I attended a screening of a preliminary cut of the documentary "The Soul of Kalaupapa." The film examines the ecumenical legacy of the leper's colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to St. Damien of Molokai, she wanted to walk where he walked, pray where he prayed and witness for herself the place — both stunning and haunting — where the ...
At the bottom of some of the tallest sea cliffs in the world, on the remote north shore of Molokai, Hawaii, a tongue of land splits the darkened ocean. This is Kalaupapa. For the last five years, this ...