There’s a beautiful little scene in the film about St. Damien of Molokai. The saint has volunteered to be the one priest to serve the lepers on the island colony of Molokai. Knowing that he is likely ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (KITV4) – Father Damien, also known as Saint Damien of Molokai, is being remembered this Good Friday. Damien died of leprosy on April 15, 1889, at the age of 49 at Kalawao. Father ...

This year, the Roman Catholic Church gave its highest honor to a man named Father Damien of Molokai. He was canonized as a saint back in October by Pope Benedict XXII. Damien was a simple man whose ...

WHEN I first flew over Molokai, the old battleground of Father Damien, and heard the airline stewardess say, “The Hansen’s disease settlement,” as she pointed down to the peninsula of Kalaupapa, I ...

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed a bill into law establishing April 27 every year as “Brother Joseph Dutton Day.” to honor his ...

I’m not sure what I was doing back in 1999, when the indie film Molokai was first released, but I don't remember hearing anything about it. Now, though, the inspiring story of Father Damien and the ...

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 ...

Father Damien de Veuster was a Belgian priest who subjected himself to leprosy to minister to the lepers’ colony on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. He lived from 1840-89. (Courtesy Photo) Jozef de ...

HONOLULU (KHNL) - Joseph De Veuster better known as Father Damien will be canonized a Saint. News from the Vatican on Thursday, July 3 confirmed the change. Steps towards Sainthood occurred after Pope ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...