Father Damien's Pronoun

In 1873, a Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii, and into a colony of eight hundred people whom the world had discarded. The leper settlement at Kalaupapa was a place of enforced exile — the sick sent there to die, forgotten by society and often by the church. For years, Father Damien preached, bandaged wounds, built coffins, and dug graves.…