what kind of pope?

Captain Emil Joseph Kapaun
Catholic priest awarded the Medal of Honor
op. posth opus postumum
b. April 20, 1916 Kansas; d. May 23, 1951 North Korea
served 1944–1946 & 1948–1951

Kapaun served the troops, rescuing the wounded and dead, performing baptisms, hearing confessions, and saying Mass on an improvised altar set up on the front end of a Jeep.

Several times his Mass kit, Jeep, and trailer were destroyed by enemy fire. In letters home, he reported that he was convinced that prayers helped him survive.

Final Engagement
November 1–2, 1950
Despite pleas for him to escape, he stayed behind with the 800 men of the 3rd Battalion as the rest of the regiment retreated.

During the battle, he braved enemy fire and rescued nearly 40 men. The 5th Cavalry Regiment attempted several times to rescue the beleaguered 3rd Battalion, but was unsuccessful.

Kapaun and the men were taken prisoner and marched 87 miles to a temporary prison camp at Sombakol, then to the permanent camp (Prison Camp 5) at Pyoktong.

Up to two dozen men died a day from malnutrition, disease, lice, and extreme cold. Kapaun dug latrines, mediated disputes, gave away his food, and raised morale.

He stole food for the men to eat, stood up to communist indoctrination, smuggled dysentery drugs to the doctor, Sidney Esensten, and led the men in prayer.

Kapaun had dysentery and pneumonia and developed a blood clot in one of his legs. Weakened as the months passed, he managed to say Mass on Easter Sunday, March 25, 1951.

He was so weak that prison guards took him to a place in the Pyoktong camp they called the "hospital", where he died of malnutrition and pneumonia on May 23, 1951, at the age of 35.

declared
​a Blessed (two syllables, like Jesus)

This is the kind of man we need to be the next pope, a warrior priest.