http://movies.tvguide.com/molokai-story-father-damien/289265?rss=object The latest on Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://movies.tvguide.com/molokai-story-father-damien/289265?rss=object http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820059?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820059?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/372/015639_13.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to spend three months working in a colony for victims of leprosy on the island of Molokai. When he arrives, he discovers the lepers have been herded to a barely inhabitable part of the island where they're treated like animals. Damien is shocked, and makes it his crusade to improve the lives of the lepers, planting trees to help buffer the island's strong winds and building huts to house the sicker members of the tribe. Damien also concerns himself with their spiritual needs, restoring a sense of dignity and self-respect among the diseased and urging them away from drinking, sex, and other sinful behavior. At first, Damien's pleas to the mainland for medicine, supplies, and medical help fall on deaf ears, but soon the pres</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820059?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:59:37 -0400 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820059?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/372/015639_13.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to spend three months working in a colony for victims of leprosy on the island of Molokai. When he arrives, he discovers the lepers have been herded to a barely inhabitable part of the island where they're treated like animals. Damien is shocked, and makes it his crusade to improve the lives of the lepers, planting trees to help buffer the island's strong winds and building huts to house the sicker members of the tribe. Damien also concerns himself with their spiritual needs, restoring a sense of dignity and self-respect among the diseased and urging them away from drinking, sex, and other sinful behavior. At first, Damien's pleas to the mainland for medicine, supplies, and medical help fall on deaf ears, but soon the pres</p> Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien