Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer Verdi was so fascinated by the grotesque figure of Rigoletto, the humpbacked court jester, that he created an opera about him, and Victor Hugo, similarly fascinated, placed his hunchback in the upper reaches of Notre Dame. ...

A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at the Campion Center in Weston for Rev. Joseph P. Merrick, S.J., a missionary in Baghdad from 1933 until 1969, when the Jesuits were expelled from Iraq....

French doctors announced Tuesday that they had performed a partial face transplant on a man whose face was disfigured by a genetic disorder, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part of his cheeks.The 15-hour operation was the world's third partial face...

French doctors have performed a partial face transplant on a 27-year-old man, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part of his cheeks, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.The 15-hour operation was the world's third partial face transplant.The patient suffered from a genetic...

The Elephant Man and humanity connect at various levels. Humanity, which is the quality of being human, is used to describe the life for which John Merrick strives.