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Given at Christian Brothers College High School, Town and Country, Missouri. Readings for Today. Listen to our other homilies.

Get the cure
Leprosy was something that impacted humans more than just because it was an ultimately a fatal illness. It isolated a person physically as a contagious disease, socially because you were banished to the outside of a town, and religiously because there was a belief that this illness was a punishment from God.