Author: JOSEPH PRONECHEN

Title: Sainthood Cause Begins For Vietnam Hero Priest

Keywords: Vietnam, Operation Union II, Medal of Honor, Capod

Sysnopsis:He Died With His Men
Sainthood Cause Begins For Vietnam Hero Priest

National Catholic Register
May 28-June 3, 2006

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by JOSEPH PRONECHEN
Register Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — This Memorial Day, you can pray to the Maryknoll priest they called “The Grunt Padre.”

On May 21 at the Memorial Day Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Father Vincent Capodanno received the title Servant of God.

The Vietnam War Navy chaplain was a Medal of Honor winner.
At the Mass, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, officially opened the cause for canonization for Father Capodanno, who died heroically in Vietnam on Sept. 4, 1967, during a fierce battle in Operation Swift.