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Live Televised Memorial Mass Scheduled SEPT. 7, 2021 for Vietnam War Hero Father Vincent R. Capodanno, MM

WASHINGTON, DC – The annual Memorial Mass for Father Vincent R. Capodanno, MM, United States Navy Chaplain and Vietnam War hero, will be celebrated on Sept. 7, 2021, at 6:30 p,m. EDT in the Crypt Church the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, will be the principal celebrant and homilist.

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July 15, 2021 No Comments

EWTN’s The Church Universal to Focus on the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and its Mission “Serving Those Who Serve”

IRONDALE, AL – The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), and its mission “serving those who serve,” will be prominently featured next month on the EWTN program, The Church Universal. Host Father Joseph Mary Wolfe, MFVA, will talk with seven AMS clergymen, Catholic U.S. Military chaplains, and lay staff members about their ministry providing pastoral care to the men and women who defend our nation in uniform during three programs over a consecutive three-week period.

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February 26, 2020 No Comments

Watch Called and Chosen – Father Vincent R. Capodanno July 4 on EWTN

WASHINGTON, D.C. — EWTN will celebrate the nation’s 242nd birthday next week by televising Called and Chosen – Father Vincent R. Capodanno, the Gabriel Award winning docudrama about the celebrated U.S. Navy Chaplain, Vietnam War hero, and candidate for sainthood. EWTN will broadcast the film in North America on Wednesday, July 4, at 10 a.m. (EDST) with an encore showing that same day at 4:00 p.m. (EDST).

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June 29, 2018 No Comments

SALUTE Magazine Receives Awards at Catholic Media Conference

GREEN BAY, WI – The Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada saluted SALUTE Magazine with two awards Friday night, June 15, 2018, at the organization’s annual Catholic Media Conference in Green Bay, WI. SALUTE is the quarterly news magazine of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS). Edited by Ms. Jo Ann Redmond, SALUTE has a circulation of approximately 50,000 worldwide.

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June 20, 2018 No Comments

EWTN to Air New Film on Father Vincent R. Capodanno, M.M., this Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 10 p.m. (EDST)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This coming Wednesday night, Aug. 30, at 10:00 p.m. (EDST), EWTN will premiere an all-new film about Vietnam War hero and U.S. Navy Chaplain, Father Vincent R. Capodanno, M.M., Servant of God. The 90-minute film, Called and Chosen – Father Vincent R. Capodanno, explores the life of the Maryknoll missionary-turned-military-chaplain, who died at the age of 38 in Vietnam’s Quế Sơn Valley, administering the sacraments to embattled U.S. Marines and pulling the wounded to safety. Father Capodanno received the Medal of Honorposthumously on January 7, 1969, and the Holy See’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints is now consideringwhether to recognize him as a Saint.

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August 28, 2017 No Comments

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