Reflecting on the Gospel reading for the day, Pope Francis suggested that the leper’s encounter with Jesus contained two “transgressions”: the man’s decision to approach Jesus and Christ ...

He pointed to the day's Gospel reading from Mark, in which Jesus heals a man from leprosy. He said the episode has three distinct moments: the plea of the leper, Jesus' response and the result of ...

Jesus Christ’s healing of the leper in the Gospel of Mark encapsulates the whole history of salvation, said Pope Benedict XVI in his Sunday Angelus address for Feb. 12.

Pointing to the story of Jesus Christ’s healing of the lepers in the Gospel of St. Luke, Cardinal Turkson noted that “when Christ brings healing to the man with leprosy in the Gospel, he ...