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Boy's family requests prayers to Kapaun

BY STAN FINGER, The Wichita Eagle | July 29 at 10:48 p.m.

Mason Medlam is in the fight of his young life. But he has defied the odds ever since he was born five years ago, his mother said, and he's doing it again.

Tiahrt promotes Kapaun Medal of Honor

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | May 28 at 3:19 a.m.

Supporters of the effort to authorize a Medal of Honor for Father Emil Kapaun of Kansas got another boost this week.

Pole-vaulter returns to field after nearly dying

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | April 3 at 1:57 p.m.

Chase Kear pole-vaulted at the Hutchinson Night Relays last weekend. As sports comebacks go, this comeback got up to only 10 feet, 6 inches.

Father Emil Kapaun: Former POWs say his miracle was providing them hope

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | July 29 at 12:25 p.m.

Chase Kear does not seem at first glance to be the poster boy for a Vatican investigation involving sainthood. He chews a little dip, hits targets at turkey shoots, listens to country music when he rolls. In his Facebook profile photo he dresses the part of a halfnaked bandito in a sombrero. He’s a self-described redneck; also foolish and drunk and stupid at times in the past, he says, though less so since his accident.

Another story behind the photo

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 14 at 1:49 p.m.

Frank Noel, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer and former photographer at The Wichita Eagle, was among the men imprisoned with Father Emil Kapaun in North Korea.

Stories of Father Emil Kapaun

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 16 at 3 p.m.

The following are stories about Father Emil Kapaun or the men who knew him in Korea. These were gathered in interviews with former POWs, men who served with Kapaun on the battlefield and from archival material at the Catholic Diocese of Wichita. They were not included in the print series “The Miracle of Father Kapaun” because of space constraints.

Father Emil Kapaun: POWs call him 'a hero and a saint'

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | July 29 at 12:25 p.m.

The legend of Father Kapaun and the quest to elevate him to sainthood began in September 1953 as soon as Communist guards released prisoners at the end of the Korean War.

QUOTATIONS

Dec. 17 at 3:34 p.m.

Taken from a number of sermons written by Father Emil Kapaun when he was a young parish priest in Pilsen, Kan.

Father Emil Kapaun forgives guards, welcomes death

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | July 29 at 12:25 p.m.

The POWs in the Pyoktong prison camp began a cloaked and daring effort to save Emil Kapaun’s life. On a rise above them stood the remains of a Buddhist monastery; the guards called it a hospital, but POWs called it "The Death House." The Chinese sometimes killed prisoners by isolating them there from food and help. The POWs knew that’s where Kapaun might end up.

Father Emil Kapaun: Leads camp prisoners in quiet acts of defiance

BY ROY WENZL, The Wichita Eagle | April 15 at 10:20 a.m.

At sunrise on Easter Sunday, March 25, 1951, Father Emil Kapaun startled POWs by donning his purple priest’s stole and openly carrying a Catholic prayer missal, borrowed from Ralph Nardella.

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