The arm of the church serving U.S. Armed Forces and veterans hospitals is one of the few Catholic groups that has not created ...

February 3 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the United States Army Transport Dorchester and the selfless acts of four Army chaplains aboard during World War II. The 368-foot steamship ...

The Kings County American Legion held its 82nd anniversary remembrance of the four World War II Army chaplains on Feb. 13 in ...

“Our Navy chaplains are more than ... He deserted, emigrated to the United States and joined the U.S. Army. He became a rabbi, and when World War II began, volunteered to serve in the Navy.

Disasters and tragedies bring out the worst and the best in people. Eighty-two years after the story played out, American ...

he was granted permission by Bishop Christian Winkelmann to become a U.S. Army chaplain. Outside of the U.S., Kapaun was assigned to posts in Burma and India in the final years of World War II and ...

(JTA) — “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” begins as many Holocaust ... of Iwo Jima — until his fellow chaplains objected, forcing the military to conduct three separate services.

Renowned Korean War military chaplain ... a U.S. Army chaplain. Outside of the U.S., Father Kapaun was assigned to posts in Burma and India in the final years of World War II and in Korea ...