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The Kapaun Virtue, by Sheryl Collmer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Kapaun Virtue, by Sheryl Collmer

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Father Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass using the hood of a Jeep as his altar on Oct. 7, 1950. | Credit: Public domain.

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, July 2, 2026

Sheryl Collmer is a semi-retired business consultant. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

Even in our screen-driven, fast-food comfortable lives, Kapauns can be formed.

When Venerable Emil Kapaun’s earthly remains were returned home to his native Kansas in 2021, Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Miller, at attention from his wheelchair, extolled him: “You don’t have ’em like that anymore.”

Perhaps. But the raw material is there. Kapauns don’t spring fully formed out of the earth; they’re cultivated by hard work and difficult circumstances. Emil Kapaun grew up in a bare-bones Kansas household in the 1930s, doing heavy physical labor to help keep the farm going. That’s good training for a sacrificial life.

Most of us live more leisurely now, but there are still good training exercises to strip away our conveniences and bring us face-to-face with our ability to withstand discomfort without forgetting our Christian ethic. I would say that’s the Kapaun virtue: tending to others when your own body is crying out in pain. …

The Kapaun Virtue, by Sheryl Collmer

The Democratic Socialist Wave Moves West, by Henry Zavalick

SSPX Consecrates Bishops in Defiance of Rome’s Schism Warning, by Victoria Cardiel

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, July 2, 2026

Even in our screen-driven, fast-food comfortable lives, Kapauns can be formed.

When Venerable Emil Kapaun’s earthly remains were returned home to his native Kansas in 2021, Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Miller, at attention from his wheelchair, extolled him: “You don’t have ’em like that anymore.”

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