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(OSV News) \u2014 As supporters of Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno\u2019s canonization cause marked the 60th anniversary of the late Navy chaplain\u2019s arrival in Vietnam in 1966, there was renewed hope that the effort was gaining momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints is expected to decide whether to recommend to Pope Leo XIV that he declare <a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollmissionarchives.org\/deceased-fathers-bro\/father-vincent-r-capodanno-mm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Capodanno<\/a> venerable in May. In the meantime, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services approved the creation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capodannoguild.org\/novena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">novena for Father Capodanno\u2019s cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the novena took place from March 30 to April 7, to coincide with Holy Week, Father Daniel Mode, who wrote the novena, encourages the faithful to continue to pray it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor to do that,\u201d said Father Mode, a Navy chaplain who is part of the historical committee for the canonization cause. \u201cYou can pray (the novena) anytime between now and May, or even after May,\u201d he told The Tablet, the news outlet of the Diocese of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Mode wrote the novena with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capodannoguild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Vincent Capodanno Guild<\/a>, a 4,000-member organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2022\/09\/father-capodanno-honored-on-55th-anniversary-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helping to promote the cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A pastor who sowed faith in the midst of war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Capodanno, a Staten Island native who served as a chaplain during the Vietnam War and was killed in 1967, was declared a \u201cservant of God\u201d in 2006, when his sainthood cause was officially opened. If he is declared venerable, it would mark the second step in his cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general for the next two steps, beatification and canonization, a miracle for each step must be accepted by the church as having occurred through the intercession of the prospective saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Capodanno arrived in Vietnam during Holy Week in April 1966 and earned the nickname of \u201cThe Grunt Padre\u201d for his insistence on living, eating and sleeping in the same conditions as the Marines \u2014 known as grunts \u2014 with whom he was serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was killed by enemy fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2021\/11\/mercy-in-battle-remembering-father-capodanno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">while trying to shield a wounded corpsman<\/a> with his body during an attack by the North Vietnamese in the Que Son Valley in central Vietnam on Sept. 4, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His sainthood cause was officially opened on May 19, 2006, by the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, with Father Mode as the original postulator. At that time, he began the process of putting together the <em>\u201cpositio\u201d<\/em> \u2014 the primary document to be presented to the Vatican outlining why the person is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2018\/01\/readers-responses-january-february-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deserving of sainthood<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the documents used for the <em>\u201cpositio\u201d<\/em> was Father Mode\u2019s book \u201cThe Grunt Padre: Father Vincent Capodanno, Vietnam 1966-1967,\u201d published in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs you can imagine, it is a huge document that includes everything; testimonials, baptismal certificates, timelines,\u201d Father Mode said of the <em>\u201cpositio.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Renewed hope: The Vatican is reviewing his case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the dicastery suspended the canonization process in May 2022 and requested additional information about Father Capodanno, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, the dicastery wanted to know more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1636634396948585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his life as a priest<\/a>, \u201cbecause there were questions about his obedience,\u201d Father Mode told The Tablet. In addition, the dicastery wanted to know about his relationship with his superiors and whether his final sacrifice \u2014 using his body to shield an injured Marine from gunfire \u2014 was really a free spiritual offer from the heart or simply a patriotic gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To answer the questions, Archbishop Broglio established a second historical commission (the first one was originally formed at the start of the canonization process), which got to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second commission\u2019s answers were submitted in May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he awaits the dicastery\u2019s decision, Father Mode said he is optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am always hopeful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Preece, vice postulator for Father Capodanno\u2019s cause, said she is hopeful as well. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2017\/09\/capodanno-grunt-padre-50-years-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He walked among us<\/a> and radiated Christ to so many,\u201d she told The Tablet. \u201cIt is us who would benefit from naming him as a saint. But ultimately, God decides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: A memorial to Maryknoll Father Vincent R. Capodanno, a Navy chaplain who was killed in 1967 while serving with the Marines in Vietnam, is seen July 15, 2019, at Fort Wadsworth in the Staten Island borough of New York. Father Capodanno, a native of Staten Island, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1969. His cause for sainthood is being promoted by the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. (CNS\/Gregory A. 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