WICHITA, Kan. — A U.S. Army chaplain who died in a prisoner of war camp during the Korean War was finally laid to rest in his home state of Kansas. Next, he could become a Catholic saint. KAKE reports ...
A memorial honoring Father Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and Army chaplain, is planned for the Kansas Statehouse. The memorial must be privately funded through gifts and donations, not taxpayer money ...
A picture of a young Emil Kapaun hangs on the wall of the small museum in his honor next to St. John’s Nepomucene Catholic Church in Pilsen. The Kansas war hero who might become a saint has taken one ...