Emil Kapaun (1916-1951), a Catholic priest and U.S. Army Chaplain from Kansas, exhibited heroic virtue as a POW during the Korean War. “Just for a moment,” one of his soldiers said, “he could turn a mud hut into a cathedral.”
My weekly piece in Angelus News.
Head over to Substack for a piece called Pilgrim Feet and a reflection on my love of walking.
Autumn fever is upon me and I am headed near the end of the month to Philadelphia, there to spend a week with a friend and EXPLORE.
“When Jesus takes you into himself to give you to souls, wherever you go means a life of isolation. We find that apparent contradiction in Christ, a hidden, contemplative soul who ended up in giving himself to men, allowing himself to be consumed by them.”
—Charles de Foucauld, desert hermit (1858-1916)
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