Editor’s Note: This is the digitized version of an article that appeared in the Saturday, Sept. 9, 1967 edition of the Staten Island Advance. It takes us back to the morning when borough residents ...

As his cause for canonization proceeds, Servant of God Vincent Capodanno’s heroic and virtuous life is remembered every Sept. 4 with a memorial Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the ...

The ‘Grunt Padre’ died on a Vietnam battlefield as a military chaplain to U.S. Marines. Theological consultants recently voted to recommend to Vatican dicastery that the cause be suspended. But ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The borough's beloved Father Vincent R. Capodanno is the subject of a documentary, "Called and Chosen," premiering at at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30, on the Eternal World ...

Maryknoll Father Vincent R. Capodanno, a Navy chaplain who was killed while serving with the Marines in Vietnam, is pictured in an undated photo. As the priest’s sainthood cause gathers momentum, he ...

Vincent Capodanno leads field prayer services, Sept. 11, 1966 , during "Operation Fresno, for A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines (Reinforced), in Quang Ngai Province. (Marine Corps Archives & ...

PINEHURST – Vincent Robert Capodanno wasn’t your average man. A Navy chaplain who posthumously received the nation’s highest honor for valor during the Vietnam war – Father Capodanno dedicated his ...