Hawaii Catholic Herald There is an exciting update on the sainthood cause for Servant of God Joseph Dutton, a layman who worked for decades with Hansen’s disease patients in Kalaupapa — first alongside Father Damien de Veuster, then as a contemporary of Mother Marianne Cope. The Joseph Dutton Guild, which was established a decade ago […]
There is no better model of priesthood than Father Kapaun, bishop says
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 […]