It's the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time and our gospel this Sunday is similar to last Sunday's gospel, where we learned that our Lord Jesus Christ is a healer and a preacher. Yet he wasn't schooled in ...

Benedict XVI reflects on Jesus' healing of the leper and 154th anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes' first appearance to St. Bernadette. VATICAN CITY (EWTN NEWS/CNA)—Jesus Christ’s healing of the leper ...

Would you consider yourself a leper? We use that term to mean several things. It could mean a person with Hansen’s disease, the brutal ailment that attacks nerves and limbs and causes deformity. It ...

Pope Francis leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Feb. 14, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel story of Jesus ...

My 16 years at a rural hospital in India showed me what healing and restoration in Christian community look like. In 1994, my mother began working as a doctor at a rural hospital run by the Christian ...

Leprosy was a common skin condition at the time of Jesus. People thought that it was a contagious disease, and this led to leprosy sufferers being treated as social outcasts. As a result there were ...