Joe Drapes, Author of the Saint Makers, How to Make a Saint

Caregiver Dave always saves the last question of these incredible celebrity interviews for their personal caregiver story. Today on The Caregiver Dave Celebrity Segment, Dave and Neil Haley will interview Joe Drape, Author of The Saint Makers.

In THE SAINT MAKERS: Inside The Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith (published by Hachette Books) Drape takes readers deep inside the Vatican to meet the priests and cardinals, lawyers, doctors and lay people who have the power to elevate a person of deep faith and goodness to the highest ranks of holiness: sainthood. In the process, he sheds light on a much larger question: Can such a person reliably be proven to exist?

At a time when the church has been badly damaged by scandal, and a pandemic-weary world is in the grip of moral and cultural upheaval, THE SAINT MAKERS offers an uplifting account of courage, service and goodness under the most horrible circumstances. On April 11, 2013 President Obama awarded Father Kapaun the Medal of Honor posthumously in the East Room of the White House before his family and his surviving fellow prisoners. His story continues to inspire believers and skeptics alike, across the globe.

Few of the 1.2 billion Catholics understand what goes on behind the scenes of the saint making process. Joe Drape had complete access to the priests, attorney, and lay people involved in the process with the Vatican. This allowed him to tell the story of the saint making process, with detail and drama, like it's never been told before, while honing in on the remarkable story of Father Emil Kapaun.