I have heard it said by some of my colleagues that Mark’s Gospel is a subversive gospel. Their reasoning is that this Good News account of Jesus cuts to the heart of social, political, religious and ...

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 ...

It’s almost a paradox that, although Mark’s is the shortest Gospel and we’ve read it on five Sundays since Jan. 10, we’re just today finishing chapter one! For the past three weeks, Jesus has healed ...

Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost. The main reading today is about the Healing of the Ten Lepers (Lk. 17:12-19). In this miracle, like most of the miracles in the Gospel, is presented ...

To understand biblical attitudes toward leprosy, it is important to realize that the malady mentioned in Leviticus is not Hansen’s disease, the ailment that today goes by the name leprosy. Hansen’s ...

The Gospel story of Jesus healing the leper illustrates how nothing will stop God from tenderly and compassionately drawing close to people who want to be healed and saved, Pope Francis said. "Each ...

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11-19. And it came to pass, as He went to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who ...

Sometimes a message conveys the inverse of what was intended. A man with a skin disease begged Jesus for help. Had he already done his ritual shout? Had he torn his clothing? Was he following the ...

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 ...