\u201cPart biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from New York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
He contends that Rome is ignoring servant of God Fr. Kapaun\u2019s cause because he was a Military Chaplain and an American. \u201cKapaun\u2019s cause just doesn\u2019t tick the right boxes for the Vatican.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His assertion that \u201cmoney and politics\u201d is behind the saint-making machine is true to some extent. Causes require money for investigation, but his over-the-top idea that postulators are making a lot of money and keeping the \u201cmeter running\u201d is in their interest, is less believable. The idea that politics does intrude its head into the process is true at times. Many causes get delayed for this very reason. Most notably, Thomas More. As to whether he is correct about the Vatican\u2019s attitude towards Kapaun is pure conjecture. It would not surprise me if this is accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, based on this article\u2019s assertions, it probably is not a very objective look into the process. I want to read an accurate book on the subject, warts and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although, I might be more interested in the author\u2019s own journey of faith and how Fr. Kapaun entered into his story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book is favorably reviewed by Fr. James Martin and Vatican journalist John Thavis. I don\u2019t want to lapse into the genetic fallacy, but I would be interested in more trustworthy reviews. I read John Thavis\u2019 \u201cThe Vatican Diaries\u201d and there were parts that I loved and parts where I was pretty much turned off by his reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cCarlo Acutis rushed to sainthood while others wait centuries for the honor\u201d So I wondered what kind of agenda-journalism was behind this New York Post headline? It looks like it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}