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Joe Drape

Joe Drape

Joe Drape is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of seven bestselling books, including The Saint Makers: Inside the Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith.

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U.S. Army chaplain Fr. Emil Joseph Kapaun, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS/Courtesy of The Catholic Advance)

American priest Emil Kapaun one step closer to sainthood

Fr. Emil 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, moving him one step closer to possible sainthood. 

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