Sister Catherine, a nun working at the home for girls with the disease finds herself asking when plagued with doubts. Recently read Molokai by Alan Brennert . It is the story of Rachel from Honolulu who contracts leprosy in the late 1800s and is packed off to the island of Molokai where the government has set up an isolation settlement called the Kaluapapa. I started reading it on my way back from DC on the train. I had just had a wonderful time with family, hogged on the thanksgiving turkey, with an Indian flavour and was heading back to home to Boston. I tried reading a few pages and soon I was embarrassing myself with tears streaming down. I had to stop reading. Rachel, then six years old erupts in a pink coloured rash on her thigh which has lost all sensation. She is transferred to the quarantine testing facility in the city. Her parents deposit her there and she cannot understand why they are abandoning here here alone. I recovered for a while and picked up where I left off. On...