After more than five years of closure, Hawaii’s Kalaupapa National Historical Park will reopen this month with a new patient-founded tour, tighter access rules, and lingering questions.

Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai is reopening to visitors on Sept. 24 with the new Kalaupapa Saints Tour, ...

Stricken with leprosy as a teenager, Harada was torn from his family and banished to this isolated peninsula on the island of Molokai to die. Today, Harada, 76, is one of the last 40 elderly patients ...

A visit to the island of Molokai offers a window on a unique and tragic chapter of Hawaiian history. For about a century beginning in 1866, about 8,000 people afflicted with leprosy were quarantined ...

John Tayman's book The Colony tells the story of Molokai, the slice of Hawaiian paradise that was turned into an infamous 19th century leper... 'The Colony' Details Molokai's Painful History RENEE ...

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 ...

The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts ...

Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii’s leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there.

Today, visitor interest in Kalaupapa, on the northern edge of Molokai island, is growing. And it will likely increase when the Vatican proclaims Father Damien a saint.