Reading ab0ut this fearless Maryknoll Navy chaplain fills one with astonishment. The servant of God was awarded posthumously the Purple Heart for giving his life to protect a wounded Marine.
CNA reports: Servant of God Fr. Vincent Capodanno, a U.S. Navy chaplain whose heroic ministry to U.S. Marines in Vietnam won him the nickname “the Grunt Padre” and a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor, will be remembered with a Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the evening of September 3. Read more here.
