The men and women (and one young child) featured in these pages experienced both joy and suffering — loneliness, sickness, ...

Bridging science and religion, forensic researchers spent nearly a decade identifying the remains of a Croatian nun with DNA evidence.

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.

The Catholic Church is believed to have recognized more than 10,000 saints. Only 11 have been from the U.S. and none of them have come from Minnesota.

Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of ...

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 considered to have lived a ...

Fr. Emil Kapaun, a military chaplain who served during two wars, was decreed "Venerable" by the Vatican's Dicastery for the ...