From National Catholic Register: On July 2, 2011, the campaign to make Fr. Emil Kapaun a saint took flight when a 3-by-3-by-3 foot wooden crate weighing 300-pounds was shipped from Wichita to Rome. Inside were 8,268 pages of documents — sermons he gave from pulpits in farm towns to theatres of war, personal letters and testimonials by more than 100 people from Kansas to Korea.
On Feb. 24, Kapaun, a military chaplain who served during two wars, was decreed “Venerable” by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints at the direction of Pope Francis. It moved him a step closer to possible sainthood. What does that mean?
