Leprosy, as Oliver Basciano notes in his fascinating and humane book Outcast, is more than an illness. It’s a byword, a “cultural artefact” that functions as “a receptacle for nightmares and prejudice ...

Find today’s readings here. When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” He ...

People who have been solicited for money to support, treat and cure lepers last week received a worthwhile shock. Few have seen lepers. They have read about lepers in the Bible and medieval histories; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 3, 1865, the Kingdom of Hawaii, then a sovereign state, enacted “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy.” Any person ...

When I visited India in the mid-1980s, I visited a leper colony run by the Missionaries of Charity. It was a good chance to learn about leprosy and understand the meaning of this horrible disease and ...

Leprosy is an ancient disease, a biblical curse and, even in the 21st century, a cultural shame so severe that in some countries, patients are sent to live in isolated colonies or tossed out of their ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. 60 Minutes couldn’t do it. Neither could NPR. Well, hats off to The Times for running Dobbs to ground on his leprosy error ...