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Kansas Catholics recall priest’s wartime ministry, heroism in POW camp
Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War. (CNS photo/U.S. Army courtesy The Catholic Advance)
By Christopher M. Riggs
• Catholic News Service • Posted March 11, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun’s body after the priest died May 23, 1951.
In 2005, Hansen was in his doctor’s office at a VA Hospital in Florida when he read an article about the U.S. Army chaplain who died a hero in a North Korean POW camp in Pyongyang. ....

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Kansas Catholics recall priest's wartime ministry, heroism in POW camp


Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War. (CNS photo/U.S. Army courtesy The Catholic Advance)
March 11, 2021
Catholic News Service
WICHITA, Kan.  William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun s body after the priest died May 23, 1951.
In 2005, Hansen was in his doctor s office at a VA Hospital in Florida when he read an article about the U.S. Army chaplain who died a hero in a North Korean POW camp in Pyongyang. ....

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Remains of Father Emil Kapaun, Korean War military chaplain, identified


Remains of Father Emil Kapaun, Korean War military chaplain, identified
U.S. Army chaplain Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured celebrating Mass from the hood of a jeep Oct. 7, 1950, in South Korea. He is a candidate for sainthood. (CNS photo/courtesy U.S. Army medic Raymond Skeehan)
By Catholic News Service • Posted March 6, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) A U.S. government forensic team announced March 4 it has identified the remains of Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, who was an Army chaplain and died in a Chinese prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War. ....

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