Kapaun is likely years away from canonization as a saint, but interest in his life — and traffic to Pilsen — is picking up.

The Great Plains of the United States are sparsely populated, and in most areas that population is sparsely Catholic. While ...

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 ...

Emil Kapaun started life as a Kansas farm boy and ended it as a Medal of Honor war hero. Now, Pope Francis has elevated Kapaun one step closer to being declared a saint by the Catholic church.

Loosely translated: “Don’t let the bastards get you down.” Father Emil Kapaun often used the phrase to help lighten the mood, even as the U.S. Army chaplain was held captive by the Chinese ...

Bulletin: ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... The National Weather Service in Dodge ...

She was a runner, not a wrestler, but had been persuaded to try a new sport by a fellow runner already on the Kapaun Mt. Carmel girls wrestling team. Nye was pinned in the first minute of her ...

PILSEN, Kansas – As an Army chaplain, Father Emil Kapaun didn’t carry a gun. But President Barack Obama, while awarding him a posthumous Medal of Honor for his bravery in the Korean War ...

Father Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass using this vehicle hood as an altar on Oct 7, 1950. Kapaun was captured by Chinese troops during the Korean War less than a month later, on Nov. 2. He died in a ...