This is this one: You may know Joe Drape as the author of 6 books and as an award-winning sports reporter for the New York Times. He takes a turn now with The Saint Makers: Inside The Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith, about how saints are “made.” 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.



"Engaging... this profile in sainthood is humane and compelling." ―Kirkus Reviews
“An illuminating exploration of the heroism of Korean War military chaplain Emil Kapaun….[A]moving account of courage and faith in the killing fields of Korea.” ―Publishers Weekly

“…hope and inspiration seem in short supply as this pandemic persists, but a bit of divine intervention seems to burst from Drape’s new book...”—National Book Review, Hot Books List



Drape had complete access to the priests, attorney, and lay people involved in the process with the Vatican, allowing him to tell the detailed and dramatic story of the saint making process like never before. Few of the 1.2 billion Catholics understand what goes on behind the scenes of the saint making process. Now they will.