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Priest says Father Kapaun’s example buoyed his morale as military chaplain

When serving troops in the U.S. Army, Father Ned Blick asked himself a simple question, "What would Father Kapaun do?"

Papal academy gives U.S. death row chaplain ‘Guardian of Life’ award

Death row inmates in Florida's prisons refer to their 6-foot-by-9-foot cell as their "house," with some having lived in their "house" for 40 years -- longer than one Catholic lay chaplain said he has lived in his family home in Tallahassee.

There is no better model of priesthood than Father Kapaun, bishop says

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.

Court’s new term to look at abortion, death penalty, religious liberty

The U.S. Supreme Court's new term, starting Oct. 4, returns to its standard routine: hearing arguments in person and taking on hot-button issues.

Hawaii Mass is send-off for remains of war-hero priest to return to Kansas

Hawaii bid aloha to Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army Korean War chaplain and candidate for sainthood Sept. 23.

Catholics should debate issues, not debase each other, cardinal says

Honest and open debate about different points of view in the Catholic Church are fundamental, but Catholics should not be demonizing the individuals with those views, Cardinal George Pell said.

Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, set to welcome home remains of Father Kapaun

The flag-draped casket was empty during a memorial Mass in Wichita for Father Emil J. Kapaun July 29, 1953.

Bishop Olmsted to promote ‘healing, reconciliation’ in pastoral visit to African American community Sunday

Bishop Olmsted will bring a message of healing, reconciliation and encouragement to Catholic African Americans this Sunday.

Polish cardinal, blind Franciscan who knew each other beatified together

The archbishop who steered Poland's Catholic Church through communist rule and a blind Franciscan nun who founded one of Europe's foremost centers for the sight-impaired took a step closer to sainthood Sept. 12.

At Mass for Cuba’s patron, bishop asks for prayers for ‘island in agony’

Bishop Felipe J. Estevez, of the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, called on Cubans, on and off the island, to choose forgiveness to help the island nation, during a Sept. 8 homily marking the feast of Cuba's patron saint, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre.