When President Obama posthumously awards Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun the Congressional Medal of Honor on Thursday April 11, the Army and the Chaplain Corps will mark this moment with great pride and ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Kansas hero from the Korean War is being honored in an ongoing graphic novel series. On Tuesday, September 23, the Association of the United States Army announced that its ...

The U.S. military said Friday it has identified the remains of an army chaplain who was lauded by fellow soldiers for his selfless example in the Korean War, received the Medal of Honor and is being ...

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. Pope ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Catholic Diocese of Wichita announced on Monday that Father Emil Kapaun has been named “venerable.” This is a title given to a person in the Catholic Church who is ...

A nonprofit dedicated to supporting the US Army has released a graphic novel highlighting the story and service of Father Emil Kapaun, the Catholic military chaplain who gave his life in a prisoner-of ...

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - As the world celebrates the first American pope, a Wichita family continues to wait patiently as a spiritually leading relative who died more than 70 years ago approaches ...

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 ...