Leprosy patients to see 1800s priest canonized

Full story: Lexington Herald-Leader

Most need wheelchairs. Their average age is 80. Neither fact is stopping 11 elderly Hawaii leprosy patients from traveling 12,000 miles to the Vatican next month to watch as the Catholic Church canonizes Father Damien - a priest who cared for leprosy patients throughout the islands more than a century ago before dying of the disease himself.

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Idea Man

Saint Paul, MN

Let's not be so fast here! It takes a several lifetimes to name a saint. And they hide the names of sex abusers. Just like the mafia organization it is.

Obi Won

Saints are hiding the names of sex abusers? And why does it take several lifetimes to become a saint?

Jess

Woodbury, CT

IN that picture... does he have little guywires holding up his hat?

Idea Man

Saint Paul, MN

& he doesn't look real happy

Realist

Honolulu, HI

So...I guess this isn't a good time for those Chicken McNugget jokes.

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