The Saint Makers

New York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint part biography of a wartime adventurer Father Emil Kapaun, part detective story, and part journey of faith.Award-winning writer Joe Drape chronicles the unlikely alliance between Father Hotze and Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, a country priest and a cosmopolitan Italian canon lawyer, as the two piece together the life of a long dead Korean War hero and military chaplain and fashion it into a case for eternal divinity. The Saint Makers offers a front row seat to the Catholic Church's saint-making machinery which has changed little in two thousand years and examines how, or if, faith and science can co-exist. The Saint Makers leads readers from the plains of Kansas to the opulent halls of the Vatican, and into the modest ranch homes of the two individuals, Avery Gerleman and Chase Kear, whose lives were...