By Christopher Riggs Catholic News Service PILSEN, Kan. (CNS) — God put the desire to be a priest in Father Emil J. Kapaun’s heart at an early age, Bishop Carl A. Kemme of Wichita, Kansas, said during a homily Sept. 26 in Pilsen, the hometown of the war-hero priest and sainthood candidate. “That thought was no […]
Hawaii bids aloha to Korean War sainthood candidate
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Hawaii bid aloha to Father Emil Kapaun, a U.S. Army Korean War chaplain and candidate for sainthood, with an evening Mass celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva Sept. 23 in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace honoring the priest who died 70 years ago in a North Korean […]
South Korea gives sainthood candidate highest military honor
Father Emil Kapaun’s remains will be flown to Kansas after a Mass Sept. 23 in Honolulu By Christopher M. Riggs Catholic News Service WICHITA, Kan. — Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Wichita Diocese who laid down his life as a military chaplain during the Korean War, received South Korea’s highest military decoration posthumously […]
Remains of Army chaplain saint candidate identified
Father Emil Kapaun had been buried with the Korean War’s unknown dead at Punchbowl’s Cemetery of the Pacific By Catholic News Service WICHITA, Kan. — A U.S. government forensic team announced March 4 it has identified the remains of Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, who was an Army chaplain and […]
