'Kendrick Castillo Way' was dedicated to the young man who sacrificed his life on the day of the horrific STEM school shootings in Highlands Ranch. Now, his parents are seeking sainthood for their son through the canonization process at The Vatican. They join Dan to discuss their journey in this pursuit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Candra Castillo fought
for truth, justice in the American way. He gave his
life for it, and now he's officially under consideration to
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become canonized, to become a saint in the Catholic Church.
Now it's a very, very long journey, and we're just
talking about the first step here. But obviously, when you're
talking about Kendra Castile and you look at his life
and you look at the way he laid down his
life for others, boy, which you're seem to fit, wouldn't it.
So this is going to be fascinating. And I can
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say all these decades on air, we have never talked
about canonization. We just haven't had the opportunity to write.
And so here it is, and it's real, and I
found it absolutely fascinating. And you know, I spent four
years in a Catholic seminary in high school, but I
didn't know anything about this process. So after John and
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Maria got a hold of me late Saturday night Friday,
losing track of the days. Wow, I've just been immersed
learning all that I can and have had the privilege
over the weekend to talk with a Catholic cardinal as
well as a Catholic bishop and a Catholic priest and
really just learning a lot about this fascinating process and
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everything behind it. And my hope is that even if
you're not Catholic, that you'll find it very interesting because
certainly for all Christians, I mean, we're sharing all of
these values in this whole idea of being christ Like
in life and heaven and how being a saint ties
into and in fact you have to be in heaven
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obviously to be a saint.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we'll get into all of that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But one of the things that's been really intriguing to
me is just the mechanics of the process, because the
can is not messing around with this saint stuff, right,
I mean, the Vatican has a very concrete process that
you need to go to. And as I mentioned, Kendrick
is in stage one now. But then how many of
us in our life will ever get to step one
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in the process.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Probably you know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
A very small handful of all of the people to
ever live. So this is exciting, This is exciting. I
never had the pleasure of meeting Kendrick. I kind of
feel like I know him just all the time I've spent,
you know, working on a case that pertains to his
heroism and getting noahs, folks and everybody out there, and
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a lot of people know John and Maria, you know,
knowing John and Maria, how Kendrick ended up the way
that he did, which again is a model, right, because
that's the whole idea behind sainthood is this model of holiness,
a life of heroic virtue, and of course being in heaven.
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So yeah, that's that's kind of the criteria for a
saint within the Catholic Church. A life of heroic virtue,
the person is in heaven, a model of holiness, and
is an intercessor for those here on earth. And intercessor
in my layman's understanding of it is is simply, hey,
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somebody very holy who led this great life, who's in
heaven now and can talk to God for us, can
go to God and say, hey, you know, Lord, would
you consider healing this person? Would you consider you know,
doing this doing that. That's that's the idea behind intercession. Interceding,
So you're not if Kendrick makes it all the way
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and becomes a saint, it's not like we're worshiping Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, we just worshiped God. You know that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The point is though, that Kendrick would be in a
position to intercede for us. And that's why most people
have heard of this part, right, That's why to be
a saint you have to have a couple of miracles
attributed to you. And we'll have experts on the show
today to talk about a first step. Kendrick's parents, John
and Maria will be with us at four to twenty,
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and then we're going to have a fascinating, really really
sharp Catholic priest with us at five six to talk
about this process in more.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Depth, a Reverend Patrick t. Loretto.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So much ahead on that, but again through my immersion
this weekend, and take it with a grain of salt,
because I'm an amateur at this and just learning it.
I've never obviously thought that I would be a candidate.
I'm just hoping to make it there by the skin
of my teeth. Yeah, you've got these different steps and
the first step is you go through the process that
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Kendrick is going through right now, and we'll get into
detail when again we have the expert with us. But
that process then would eventually lead to being determined to
be a servant of God. So that's step one, servant
of God, and that's a recognition of the holiness of
the person. You know, from my standpoint, it seems like
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a no brainer with Kendrick, but it's a very detailed process.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Step two venerable. You're declared venerable.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
At that point you're determined to have been a person
of heroic virtue. And then the next step is blessed.
This is a really big deal, right it's just behind
saint and it's blessed where there is a miracle then
attributed to that person's intercession. So they've already been designated
a servant of God, venerable for their heroic virtue, and
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then blessed a miracle attributed to their intercession. And obviously,
you know, built into all of this is a conclusion
that this person is in heaven, because you can't intercede
in that case unless you're in heaven. And then finally
the person would become a saint, which is where we
hope this all ends for Kendrick, and to become a saint,
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it requires a second miracle.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In this miracle stuff, it's serious business.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean, with the miracle, it has to be deeply,
deeply investigated. They bring in scientists, they bring in doctors.
In bottom line, of course, is there has to be
this credible finding that there's no other explanation for blank.
There's no other explanation for this cure, because these miracles
that lead to blessed status and then sainthood are almost
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always not always they're almost always healings. So in other words,
that there's no other explanation for how this person who
was about to die of cancer.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Suddenly was healed.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It is completely cancer free after seeking the intercession of
so and so.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So that's a quick overview as I understand it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And again I'm learning about all of this since you know,
receiving the call over the weekend and just not be
more excited. And how great it would be, right, how
great it would be for America. America's only had eleven
American saints, How great it would be for America, How
great it would be for the world, How great it
would be for Colorado, because you know, every saint's a saint, right,
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But Kendrick, it seems to me, is exactly the kind
of saint we need. Now, you know, a model young
person who laid down their life in a very real
kind of scenario that so many kids are afraid of
across the world, so many kids face across the world.
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It would seem to be that Kendrick would be a
particularly relatable saint and a saint who would have I
think tremendous effect in terms of kids being able to
relate and connect and model that great Christian sacrifice and behavior.
So anyway, we'll be talking about ways that you can
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help if you'd like to.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I hope you want to.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But one of the things I'm still trying to learn.
I don't know the answer to this yet. Maybe we'll
find out together at five oh six when Reverend Patrick
Deleretto joins us is okay. This first step is a
process of demonstrating to the bishop that there is very
strong community support for the sainthood of Kendrick Castile. Now again,
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that's a no brainer, right, but it has to be
demonstrated in certain ways. One of the things I don't
understand is does this go beyond asking Kendrick to intercede
through our prayers? Does it go to, for example, letter writing.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't mean to make this sound like a political campaign,
but I'm trying to figure out is letter writing part
of it? Since step one it's critical for the bishop
to confirm that there's this widespread public support for the
sainthood of Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Does it include food letter writing?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So these are the things we're in the process of learning,
and we'll pass along much more on the show today
as well. There's so much going on in the world
we're going to touch on, of course, this horror in
Colorado created by the radical far left, where now you
get these extraordinarily dangerous criminals who can then be found
to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, and then never
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have to stand trial and then end up back out
on the street. Obviously, we've been talking about a very
dangerous and prominent case here with this Solomon Gallaghan.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We have an update on that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
George Brockler will join us at five point thirty six
to talk about that Trump's big triumphant trade deal and
the left openly rooting against it, which is kind of fun, right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think a lot of.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Americans won't like other Americans rooting against us. It'll be
less likely to vote for Democrats in the future because
of that. So we'll enjoy that together. And then a
really important new pro life poll which again and we'll
confirm and encourage all of us who who completely understand
this is the civil rights issue of our lifetime and
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the arc bends toward life here on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, there are heroes and then there are saints.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And Kendrick Castilla now officially in that long process within
the Catholic Church that may lead to canonization, let's hope. So,
but what a privilege to go to Kendrick's parents again.
John and Maria Castillo kind enough to join us on
the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
John, Maria, good afternoon, Good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh please?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You just aged me ten years. Maria, can you take
back the mister Caplis and just call me Dan? Maybe
I can get those years back, but but what did
it feel like to get that call again? I've the
privilege of getting to know you too, and I know
your deep faith and your personal courage. You're living through
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the single worst nightmare any of us can on the
face of the earth, the loss of a child, and
then you get that call that your son is being
considered for sainthood.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What was that like?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It was incredible. We really didn't know what the conversation
was going to be about. Actually, we were a father, Xavier,
who we have developed a relationship with over the years,
was reassigned to Connecticut and he called us and said,
it's a couple of priests from Saint Mark that would
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like to talk to you too. Is it okay that
I give them your information? We said, of course, and
we had a date and met with them, and we
just thought it was going to be a conversation perhaps
about Kendrick in his life, not really knowing what to expect.
And when we were talking with them and they had
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mentioned they were going to open up a cause for canonization,
we just looked at each other and emotions flowed, as
you can imagine, and never expected anything like this.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So it makes it makes perfect sense, doesn't it, Maria.
I mean, Kendrick is a saint, Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I think.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
He was a very devout Catholic and wasn't shy about
showing his Catholicism and his virtue in public with friends
and to his whole life. I mean it was it
was natural to us because we are around him. Yeah,
but for other people to recognize that and uh, and
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I'm sure as they investigate and learn more about Kendrick,
the world will be quite surprised to see how different
he really was for a young person in today's times.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
In what way.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
We just faith his innocence. He's a virtue, you know,
he just led a different way. There was something about
him and most anybody that you'll talk to who has
known him, whether it's educators or friends or random people
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that he met, they just left thinking something different about Kendrick,
that he was not ordinary, he was different, and he
loved people. He loved people. He was of course an
only child, but he.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just had this.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Way about him. And it's hard for me to bribe,
like I said, for as it was natural. It was
just who Kendrick was, right, And you know, now it's
just seeing how and you know, we ussued it at
church for instance, ill you did a good example and
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when we would usher and do things. There are people
in the congregation, older folks that just were drawn to him,
and they would have conversations if he loved him, they'd
show up not only her mass, but to see Kendrick.
And he just projected that kind of you know, work love.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, you know, in other words, holiness, right. I mean
I didn't have the privilege of knowing Kendrick then, but
from everything I've heard from people, he really was very
holy in the real world sense and obviously ultimately the
ultimate Christian holiness laying down your life for others.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, that is and we reflect on that, and I
often tell people about May seventh. You know, evil thought
it had a plan, the killers, the evil that was
going to take lives and cause destruction. But they didn't
know Kendrick, and they didn't know his life and his
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upbringing and his devotion to Our Lord and Savior. And
I can only imagine that when evil presented itself, Kendrick
was the best tool at the time to do whatever
he had to do. And that was in his character.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Right, with no hesitation, right, because if there'd been any
hesitation that then evil prevails. Because as John and Maria
well know, and I know from having the privilege of
working on that case, these killers planned to methodically execute
every student and every teacher, all two teachers in that classroom.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That was their plan.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They they were not only going to kill everybody, they
were going to kill them one by one, and that's
why they devised this plan that was designed around buying
them the time they needed to kill each person individually.
But as John says, what evil didn't plan on was Kendrick.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
That's right, and Kendrick before his heroic day on May seventh,
lived a life of virtue and those are the greatest
memories of him. In fact, we would worry about him
when he would fill with his friends and his jeep
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to the mountains because he would stop to help strangers.
He had it in his heart that he loved everyone
and never thought of the danger that he could be
putting himself in. That was just kendrick way of life,
and he lived that and it made us so proud.
Attending Catholic school and then going into a private charter
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school where things were a little different. We had our reservations,
but we never had to worry because Kendrick touch how
he was raised. We watched it right there and drew
people to him, and it was his incredible city.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Right, and it's part of Catholic and Christian teaching. You're
supposed to take it to the world as Kendrick did.
And John and Maria, can you stay with us for
another segment because I want to get into some of
the details about what people can do now to support
this cause of canonization for Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Can you spend one more with us?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah? Absolutely, Dan, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I appreciate that. We'll come back with John and Maria Castillo. Obviously,
Kendrick a hero not just to us here in Colorado,
but to the nation and to the world world.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But if he was to.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Be canonized, just as a flawed Catholic myself, just as
one guy, I just think it would do such enormous good,
enormous good for the church, enormous good for our community,
enormous good for America because of the role model that
a saint becomes right and Kendrick is that ultimate role
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model and one who I think many younger people could
just automatically relate to and just be an example of
those virtues.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But we'll come back.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think you'll find the nitty gritty of this process fascinating.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The Vatican doesn't mess around with this. It's very methodical
and we'll get into those details and how you can help.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, the ultimate heroism leaning down one's life for another,
as Kendrick Castillo did to save so many at Stem School.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Now being considered for sainthood.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
His parents, John and Maria kind to join us on
the show as we've been talking about Kendrick and his
virtue extending beyond that ultimate act of virtue laying down
his life to save others, but just talking about Kendrick
the kid and the different ways he would he would
show his virtue and what I call is his holiness
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in a very real world kind of way. Now, I
want to talk with John and Maria about their understanding
of the process and how folks who want to help
this cause can help. And as I've learned more about it, guys,
it's been fascinating to see that this first step of
the process is I understand, it really is about showing
the bishop that there is what's obvious, right, this widespread
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support for making Kendrick a saint, is that right? What
do you guys understand about what comes next.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, that's correct. This process, as we understand it, is
to put it out there to the community and public
and of course, you know, our Catholic churches and just
have them pray for intercession and really reach out and
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see what people's thoughts are about Kendrick becoming a saint.
And we've had very positive response just from the onset
of this through social media and word of mouth. A
lot of people that have grown up with Kendrick, some
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teachers who have taught him, and you know, they have
felt and kind of mentioned that they believe Kendrick has
what it takes to become a saint. And that's really
what we're asking people to do, is to have him
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intercede in their lives if somebody is as sick, or
if they need help or whatever it might be. I
would even include that people who have stepped away from
the faith maybe return to church and you know, receive
the Eucharist and go to confession, do things and just
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think about Kendrick, learn about him. I think such an
honor that we're just at this very first stage and
we as parents, Marie and I have talked about it.
We continue to pray. This is not something to be
taken lightly, and we can't promote it. We surrender like
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we always have. We surrender to our Lord and we'll
let him work and see if this is something that
he wants. But we ask other people to get out
there and if they're having difficulties in their lives that
maybe Kinderton intercede and help them.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, well, said John and Maria Castillo, our guests. And
as I've learned more, and I can't believe how ignorant
I've then of this whole canonization process, right, just have
never had any reason to dig into it. But everything
I've learned over the weekend, including talking to a Catholic
cardinal and a Catholic bishop and a Catholic priest. The
priest Father Patrick Dialoretto will join us at five oh six.
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Is it's fascinating that you know you've got these stages, right,
John and Marie, and correct me if I'm wrong, But
you have the servant of God's stage, which is stage
one where the holiness would then be recognized. The next
step then would be venerable, which is you know that
the heroic virtue of one's life, and also, of course
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a given that that person's now in heaven, and then
the next step would be blessed, where a miracle is
attributed to their intercession, and finally saint, where a second
miracle would be attributed to Kendrick's intercession. And tell me
if I have this right, But my understanding of intercession
is simply that where the belief is that Kendrick is
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in heaven because of his virtue, because of his holiness,
and so the idea then is that we're encouraged to
pray to Kendrick, which is not worshiping Kendrick, we only
worship God, but praying to Kendrick and asking Kendrick to
talk to God on our behalf and to intercede and
to say, God, will you healed this person over here?
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Is that your understanding of this concept of intercession?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Yes, it is. That's exactly that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, And see, to me, that is just so cool,
this whole idea of just and I'm sure a lot
of people in the audience they pray at night and
in their own different ways and their own different approaches.
But what I was raised as a kid, and it
sounds like you raised Kendrick that way too.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Was you know, it's just an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, It's it's not putting on some you know,
a suit or anything and doing this and doing that.
It's just kind of an ongoing conversation with God. And
the concept here now is part of that conversation is
with Kendrick. And Hey, Kendrick, you know, I've got this
friend over here, like Amy and I have. Oh, it's
just so sad, But everybody has one of these stories
right where this beautifully young couple just got married, This
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kid's you know, just just a big important figure in
the sports world, and all of a sudden the stricken
with cancer. And so you're saying to Kendrick, Kendrick, k
will you talk to God and see if it'd be
possible to cure so and so?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And then to me, that's just such a cool idea.
And then if one or more of these healings can
be attributed to Kendrick in this example, then that would
would satisfy that requirement.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Right, that's right, Wow, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, you know I think that Father Patrick will align
more of how the process, will the stages of it. Well,
you know, we are learning as we go as well
means about Catholics our whole life. I mean, we still
really have never as anybody would you know, know a
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lot about Saint said, but we're learning about that. But
I think from here, you know, just the the prayers
are the big thing, and then the surrender to the Lord,
having that conversation. You know, I love what you said.
I mean, really a prayer is a personal conversation and
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I think in our modern society, people can really benefit
by just doing that. I you know, you're well back
went to you know, of men's religious meeting and they
have that talk, and I think people get hung up
on praying perfectly or having to know every aspect of it,
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and it's really just showing that agape love and having
that conversation. And I think if people can do that
and ask Kendrick to help them, that's what we're hoping
for right now. And we hope that it takes traction.
I mean, it's believe it in God's hands.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, And I think that last point is so key that,
you know, for the folks right now who may not
be comfortable for whatever reason, you know, praying and asking
Kendrick to intercede which I'm very excited about myself. It's like, hey, Kendrick,
I know your folks, you know, can help.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Us out here.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But the other part is just going straight to God
and saying, you know, hey, God, you know Kendrick would
be a great saint and would do an awful lot
of goods. So so well, Hey, thanks to both of
you for joining us. And I'm really anxious to talk
again with the Father Dilaretto at five oh six. I
talked to him on the phone yesterday and he's just
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whip smart and he knows all this stuff down to
the tee and I just found it fascinating.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah. Yeah, they're very wonderful, very knowledgeable, very supportive. We'll
be listening for sure, and thank you for having us.
You know, this is a something very difficult for Marie
and I too. I mean, we're so blessed and pleased
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that this has happened, but it's hard to talk about.
We just feel so humble that we don't want to
We're not trying to advertise this for Hendrick, who wanted
to happen. We wanted to come from the Lord. So
you know, we're very honored that you have with on
the radio today, But we'd like people.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
To know that.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
This isn't the Lord's ends and we're just merely here
is people who raise Kendrick and we love and miss
him and we hope that this works out for him.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Beautifully said well, thank you, John, thank you Maria, and
I'm sure many people from many walks of life want
to get behind this cause, and so really looking forward
to giving everybody that opportunity. And then we'll get you
back on if you're willing and able to real soon.
Thank you, Thanks Maria, Thank you John, talk to you soon,
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you too.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
This is.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So exciting, right There's so much good, so much good happening,
so much good that can come from it. And that
just brings back to my final thought on this right now.
Something the archbishop archbishopship you at the time said the
Knight of Columbine. I was handling the coverage for KOA
The Night of Columbine, and I said to Archbishop, I
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got to start with the big question on everybody's mind,
why do bad things happen to good people? And he
made the point that God never causes evil to happen,
but God makes greatness come out of evil, and evil
God makes good arise to defeat evil, and Kendrick is
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a perfect example of that, and sainthood for Kendrick would
be part of this ongoing good. Right, good rose up
in the form of Kendrick Castile to stop evil from
the plan to execute everybody in the court. And so
much good has flowed from his ultimate sacrifice, the lives
that were saved, the inspiration that Kendrick has bad and
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now if that could be carried through further through sainthood,
just the massive amount of good that would again arise
from this this evil act.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That day you're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Show and now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Like it's a whole life change, Like I can't and
I'm gonna be transparent.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I can't pee like I used to pee. It's just
totally different.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
And uh, she not only is a blessing, but she
provided other persons that have gone through what I've gone
through so that I could talk to them and get
some solace in understand like what I'm facing not just
from a doctor, but from another individual. And I have
to have a toll Like it's a totally different life.
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I mean, thank God, I'm now I'm done. I depend
on depend you know, if you know what I mean.
I truly depend on depend Like I cannot control my bladder, so.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I get up to go to the bathroom already four
or five times a night.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, Coach Prime really have to appreciate his honesty with
everything that he's going through right now. And thank God,
literally he has survived this bladder cancer cut seven.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Please.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
But then I'm sitting up there waking up, you know,
like my grandson were.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
In the same thing.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
We got the same problem right now, we're going through
the same trials, tribulations. We kind of see who has
the heaviest bag at the end of the night.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Like this.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
It's ridiculous, but I'm making a joke out of it,
but it's real, Like it is real.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
It is real. It is real. So if you see
poor a party on the sideline, it's real. Okay, I'm
just telling you right now. You go see it, you
go see the practice, you go see.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
One, because it is unbelievable, Like dozing off and waking up.
My first thing, I'm grabbing my crops to see if
if I feed on myself, And it's just totally different,
and I know it's a lot of people out there
going through what I'm going through and dealing with what
I'm dealing with, and let's stop being ashamed of it,
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and let's deal with it.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
And let's deal with a hit on.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
See, this is the best of Prime, right.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I mean they talk about heroes on the sports field,
and that's true, especially in a sport like football where
there's all of that violence and physical risk. But in
any sport, right there those moments where you have to
show that you know internal heroism. But this is so
far beyond that and so cool the way that he's
handling it. And Ryan, I will make this prediction right now.
Oh just as remember we were the first to predict
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on this show that Prime would come to see you
before it was even being talked about publicly.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But we are going to see together the first ten
million dollar porta potty?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Right Who's going to get that sponsorship?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I mean it is going to be you're going to
see more of that porta potty on National TV.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Then you're going to see the flat irons.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, it is going to be a fixture and
some some corporation is going to get their name on
that porta potty and uh, I don't see it for
a law firm. Actually, you know, I'm not sure it's
the right mesh. But and it would be way beyond
our budget. I mean, what do you think that's going
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to go for. What do you think the porta potty
sponsorship is going to go for?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Well, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I would say, I'll tell you right now, who's going
to get it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I'm checking the I'm checking the story right now to
see where these doctors are from.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I want to say, yeah, the urology center or.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Something that you see health, right, I mean, I've got
to confirm that, but to see you medical team.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But I bet it's the U see Health porta potty.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
If that's the medical team here, whoever, it is, great job,
medical team. But right that's going to be the first
ten potty. What a cool guy. What a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It does take a lot of.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Moral fortitude but courage to come out with something like
most people want to keep a diagnosis like that private.
But he knows that he has a public platform Dan
that he could use for good and to help inspire
others that might be going through the same thing. I
think it's just such a selfless move by coach sanders.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, and it goes to him talking about God as
well today, right, because that was part of his press
or how about cut nine.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Let me add this for you people that get upset
when I started talking about the lawyer, I never want
student whole journey said God, why me?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Because I would have to say, God, why are you? Why?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
I mean you sitting me up here in front of
these wonderful people. Why you give me the position of
the football coach of the prestigious university. Why you allow
me to follow five wonderful kids, Why you give me
these relationships with these wonderful people?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Why mean, Floyd, did I have some of the things
that I have? I can never say that. I can
never say the other side because I'm hard to ask that.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, so he's doing right. He's a Christian. That's a
beautiful thing. And he's doing what Christians are supposed to do,
which is use their suffering.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
To serve others. Beautiful thing to see. You're on the
Dan Capitol Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Candra Castillo fought
for truth, justice in the American way. He gave his
life for it, and now he's officially under consideration to
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become canonized, to become a saint in the Catholic Church.
Now it's a very, very long journey, and we're just
talking about the first step here. But obviously, when you're
talking about Kendra Castile and you look at his life
and you look at the way he laid down his
life for others, boy, which you're seem to fit, wouldn't it.
So this is going to be fascinating. And I can
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say all these decades on air, we have never talked
about canonization. We just haven't had the opportunity to write.
And so here it is, and it's real, and I
found it absolutely fascinating. And you know, I spent four
years in a Catholic seminary in high school, but I
didn't know anything about this process. So after John and
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Maria got a hold of me late Saturday night Friday,
losing track of the days. Wow, I've just been immersed
learning all that I can and have had the privilege
over the weekend to talk with a Catholic cardinal as
well as a Catholic bishop and a Catholic priest and
really just learning a lot about this fascinating process and
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everything behind it. And my hope is that even if
you're not Catholic, that you'll find it very interesting because
certainly for all Christians, I mean, we're sharing all of
these values in this whole idea of being christ Like
in life and heaven and how being a saint ties
into and in fact you have to be in heaven
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obviously to be a saint.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we'll get into all of that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But one of the things that's been really intriguing to
me is just the mechanics of the process, because the
can is not messing around with this saint stuff, right,
I mean, the Vatican has a very concrete process that
you need to go to. And as I mentioned, Kendrick
is in stage one now. But then how many of
us in our life will ever get to step one
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in the process.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Probably you know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
A very small handful of all of the people to
ever live. So this is exciting, This is exciting. I
never had the pleasure of meeting Kendrick. I kind of
feel like I know him just all the time I've spent,
you know, working on a case that pertains to his
heroism and getting noahs, folks and everybody out there, and
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a lot of people know John and Maria, you know,
knowing John and Maria, how Kendrick ended up the way
that he did, which again is a model, right, because
that's the whole idea behind sainthood is this model of holiness,
a life of heroic virtue, and of course being in heaven.
(03:00):
So yeah, that's that's kind of the criteria for a
saint within the Catholic Church. A life of heroic virtue,
the person is in heaven, a model of holiness, and
is an intercessor for those here on earth. And intercessor
in my layman's understanding of it is is simply, hey,
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somebody very holy who led this great life, who's in
heaven now and can talk to God for us, can
go to God and say, hey, you know, Lord, would
you consider healing this person? Would you consider you know,
doing this doing that. That's that's the idea behind intercession. Interceding,
So you're not if Kendrick makes it all the way
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and becomes a saint, it's not like we're worshiping Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, we just worshiped God. You know that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The point is though, that Kendrick would be in a
position to intercede for us. And that's why most people
have heard of this part, right, That's why to be
a saint you have to have a couple of miracles
attributed to you. And we'll have experts on the show
today to talk about a first step. Kendrick's parents, John
and Maria will be with us at four to twenty,
(04:14):
and then we're going to have a fascinating, really really
sharp Catholic priest with us at five six to talk
about this process in more.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Depth, a Reverend Patrick t. Loretto.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So much ahead on that, but again through my immersion
this weekend, and take it with a grain of salt,
because I'm an amateur at this and just learning it.
I've never obviously thought that I would be a candidate.
I'm just hoping to make it there by the skin
of my teeth. Yeah, you've got these different steps and
the first step is you go through the process that
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Kendrick is going through right now, and we'll get into
detail when again we have the expert with us. But
that process then would eventually lead to being determined to
be a servant of God. So that's step one, servant
of God, and that's a recognition of the holiness of
the person. You know, from my standpoint, it seems like
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a no brainer with Kendrick, but it's a very detailed process.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Step two venerable. You're declared venerable.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
At that point you're determined to have been a person
of heroic virtue. And then the next step is blessed.
This is a really big deal, right it's just behind
saint and it's blessed where there is a miracle then
attributed to that person's intercession. So they've already been designated
a servant of God, venerable for their heroic virtue, and
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then blessed a miracle attributed to their intercession. And obviously,
you know, built into all of this is a conclusion
that this person is in heaven, because you can't intercede
in that case unless you're in heaven. And then finally
the person would become a saint, which is where we
hope this all ends for Kendrick, and to become a saint,
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it requires a second miracle.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In this miracle stuff, it's serious business.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean, with the miracle, it has to be deeply,
deeply investigated. They bring in scientists, they bring in doctors.
In bottom line, of course, is there has to be
this credible finding that there's no other explanation for blank.
There's no other explanation for this cure, because these miracles
that lead to blessed status and then sainthood are almost
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always not always they're almost always healings. So in other words,
that there's no other explanation for how this person who
was about to die of cancer.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Suddenly was healed.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It is completely cancer free after seeking the intercession of
so and so.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So that's a quick overview as I understand it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And again I'm learning about all of this since you know,
receiving the call over the weekend and just not be
more excited. And how great it would be, right, how
great it would be for America. America's only had eleven
American saints, How great it would be for America, How
great it would be for the world, How great it
would be for Colorado, because you know, every saint's a saint, right,
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But Kendrick, it seems to me, is exactly the kind
of saint we need. Now, you know, a model young
person who laid down their life in a very real
kind of scenario that so many kids are afraid of
across the world, so many kids face across the world.
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It would seem to be that Kendrick would be a
particularly relatable saint and a saint who would have I
think tremendous effect in terms of kids being able to
relate and connect and model that great Christian sacrifice and behavior.
So anyway, we'll be talking about ways that you can
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help if you'd like to.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I hope you want to.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But one of the things I'm still trying to learn.
I don't know the answer to this yet. Maybe we'll
find out together at five oh six when Reverend Patrick
Deleretto joins us is okay. This first step is a
process of demonstrating to the bishop that there is very
strong community support for the sainthood of Kendrick Castile. Now again,
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that's a no brainer, right, but it has to be
demonstrated in certain ways. One of the things I don't
understand is does this go beyond asking Kendrick to intercede
through our prayers? Does it go to, for example, letter writing.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't mean to make this sound like a political campaign,
but I'm trying to figure out is letter writing part
of it? Since step one it's critical for the bishop
to confirm that there's this widespread public support for the
sainthood of Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Does it include food letter writing?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So these are the things we're in the process of learning,
and we'll pass along much more on the show today
as well. There's so much going on in the world
we're going to touch on, of course, this horror in
Colorado created by the radical far left, where now you
get these extraordinarily dangerous criminals who can then be found
to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, and then never
(09:24):
have to stand trial and then end up back out
on the street. Obviously, we've been talking about a very
dangerous and prominent case here with this Solomon Gallaghan.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We have an update on that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
George Brockler will join us at five point thirty six
to talk about that Trump's big triumphant trade deal and
the left openly rooting against it, which is kind of fun, right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think a lot of.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Americans won't like other Americans rooting against us. It'll be
less likely to vote for Democrats in the future because
of that. So we'll enjoy that together. And then a
really important new pro life poll which again and we'll
confirm and encourage all of us who who completely understand
this is the civil rights issue of our lifetime and
(10:09):
the arc bends toward life here on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, there are heroes and then there are saints.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And Kendrick Castilla now officially in that long process within
the Catholic Church that may lead to canonization, let's hope. So,
but what a privilege to go to Kendrick's parents again.
John and Maria Castillo kind enough to join us on
the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
John, Maria, good afternoon, Good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh please?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You just aged me ten years. Maria, can you take
back the mister Caplis and just call me Dan? Maybe
I can get those years back, but but what did
it feel like to get that call again? I've the
privilege of getting to know you too, and I know
your deep faith and your personal courage. You're living through
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the single worst nightmare any of us can on the
face of the earth, the loss of a child, and
then you get that call that your son is being
considered for sainthood.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What was that like?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It was incredible. We really didn't know what the conversation
was going to be about. Actually, we were a father, Xavier,
who we have developed a relationship with over the years,
was reassigned to Connecticut and he called us and said,
it's a couple of priests from Saint Mark that would
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like to talk to you too. Is it okay that
I give them your information? We said, of course, and
we had a date and met with them, and we
just thought it was going to be a conversation perhaps
about Kendrick in his life, not really knowing what to expect.
And when we were talking with them and they had
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mentioned they were going to open up a cause for canonization,
we just looked at each other and emotions flowed, as
you can imagine, and never expected anything like this.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So it makes it makes perfect sense, doesn't it, Maria.
I mean, Kendrick is a saint, Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I think.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
He was a very devout Catholic and wasn't shy about
showing his Catholicism and his virtue in public with friends
and to his whole life. I mean it was it
was natural to us because we are around him. Yeah,
but for other people to recognize that and uh, and
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I'm sure as they investigate and learn more about Kendrick,
the world will be quite surprised to see how different
he really was for a young person in today's times.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
In what way.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
We just faith his innocence. He's a virtue, you know,
he just led a different way. There was something about
him and most anybody that you'll talk to who has
known him, whether it's educators or friends or random people
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that he met, they just left thinking something different about Kendrick,
that he was not ordinary, he was different, and he
loved people. He loved people. He was of course an
only child, but he.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just had this.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Way about him. And it's hard for me to bribe,
like I said, for as it was natural. It was
just who Kendrick was, right, And you know, now it's
just seeing how and you know, we ussued it at
church for instance, ill you did a good example and
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when we would usher and do things. There are people
in the congregation, older folks that just were drawn to him,
and they would have conversations if he loved him, they'd
show up not only her mass, but to see Kendrick.
And he just projected that kind of you know, work love.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, you know, in other words, holiness, right. I mean
I didn't have the privilege of knowing Kendrick then, but
from everything I've heard from people, he really was very
holy in the real world sense and obviously ultimately the
ultimate Christian holiness laying down your life for others.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, that is and we reflect on that, and I
often tell people about May seventh. You know, evil thought
it had a plan, the killers, the evil that was
going to take lives and cause destruction. But they didn't
know Kendrick, and they didn't know his life and his
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upbringing and his devotion to Our Lord and Savior. And
I can only imagine that when evil presented itself, Kendrick
was the best tool at the time to do whatever
he had to do. And that was in his character.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Right, with no hesitation, right, because if there'd been any
hesitation that then evil prevails. Because as John and Maria
well know, and I know from having the privilege of
working on that case, these killers planned to methodically execute
every student and every teacher, all two teachers in that classroom.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That was their plan.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They they were not only going to kill everybody, they
were going to kill them one by one, and that's
why they devised this plan that was designed around buying
them the time they needed to kill each person individually.
But as John says, what evil didn't plan on was Kendrick.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
That's right, and Kendrick before his heroic day on May seventh,
lived a life of virtue and those are the greatest
memories of him. In fact, we would worry about him
when he would fill with his friends and his jeep
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to the mountains because he would stop to help strangers.
He had it in his heart that he loved everyone
and never thought of the danger that he could be
putting himself in. That was just kendrick way of life,
and he lived that and it made us so proud.
Attending Catholic school and then going into a private charter
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school where things were a little different. We had our reservations,
but we never had to worry because Kendrick touch how
he was raised. We watched it right there and drew
people to him, and it was his incredible city.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Right, and it's part of Catholic and Christian teaching. You're
supposed to take it to the world as Kendrick did.
And John and Maria, can you stay with us for
another segment because I want to get into some of
the details about what people can do now to support
this cause of canonization for Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Can you spend one more with us?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah? Absolutely, Dan, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I appreciate that. We'll come back with John and Maria Castillo. Obviously,
Kendrick a hero not just to us here in Colorado,
but to the nation and to the world world.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But if he was to.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Be canonized, just as a flawed Catholic myself, just as
one guy, I just think it would do such enormous good,
enormous good for the church, enormous good for our community,
enormous good for America because of the role model that
a saint becomes right and Kendrick is that ultimate role
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model and one who I think many younger people could
just automatically relate to and just be an example of
those virtues.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But we'll come back.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think you'll find the nitty gritty of this process fascinating.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The Vatican doesn't mess around with this. It's very methodical
and we'll get into those details and how you can help.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, the ultimate heroism leaning down one's life for another,
as Kendrick Castillo did to save so many at Stem School.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Now being considered for sainthood.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
His parents, John and Maria kind to join us on
the show as we've been talking about Kendrick and his
virtue extending beyond that ultimate act of virtue laying down
his life to save others, but just talking about Kendrick
the kid and the different ways he would he would
show his virtue and what I call is his holiness
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in a very real world kind of way. Now, I
want to talk with John and Maria about their understanding
of the process and how folks who want to help
this cause can help. And as I've learned more about it, guys,
it's been fascinating to see that this first step of
the process is I understand, it really is about showing
the bishop that there is what's obvious, right, this widespread
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support for making Kendrick a saint, is that right? What
do you guys understand about what comes next.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, that's correct. This process, as we understand it, is
to put it out there to the community and public
and of course, you know, our Catholic churches and just
have them pray for intercession and really reach out and
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see what people's thoughts are about Kendrick becoming a saint.
And we've had very positive response just from the onset
of this through social media and word of mouth. A
lot of people that have grown up with Kendrick, some
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teachers who have taught him, and you know, they have
felt and kind of mentioned that they believe Kendrick has
what it takes to become a saint. And that's really
what we're asking people to do, is to have him
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intercede in their lives if somebody is as sick, or
if they need help or whatever it might be. I
would even include that people who have stepped away from
the faith maybe return to church and you know, receive
the Eucharist and go to confession, do things and just
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think about Kendrick, learn about him. I think such an
honor that we're just at this very first stage and
we as parents, Marie and I have talked about it.
We continue to pray. This is not something to be
taken lightly, and we can't promote it. We surrender like
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we always have. We surrender to our Lord and we'll
let him work and see if this is something that
he wants. But we ask other people to get out
there and if they're having difficulties in their lives that
maybe Kinderton intercede and help them.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, well, said John and Maria Castillo, our guests. And
as I've learned more, and I can't believe how ignorant
I've then of this whole canonization process, right, just have
never had any reason to dig into it. But everything
I've learned over the weekend, including talking to a Catholic
cardinal and a Catholic bishop and a Catholic priest. The
priest Father Patrick Dialoretto will join us at five oh six.
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Is it's fascinating that you know you've got these stages, right,
John and Marie, and correct me if I'm wrong, But
you have the servant of God's stage, which is stage
one where the holiness would then be recognized. The next
step then would be venerable, which is you know that
the heroic virtue of one's life, and also, of course
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a given that that person's now in heaven, and then
the next step would be blessed, where a miracle is
attributed to their intercession, and finally saint, where a second
miracle would be attributed to Kendrick's intercession. And tell me
if I have this right, But my understanding of intercession
is simply that where the belief is that Kendrick is
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in heaven because of his virtue, because of his holiness,
and so the idea then is that we're encouraged to
pray to Kendrick, which is not worshiping Kendrick, we only
worship God, but praying to Kendrick and asking Kendrick to
talk to God on our behalf and to intercede and
to say, God, will you healed this person over here?
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Is that your understanding of this concept of intercession?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Yes, it is. That's exactly that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, And see, to me, that is just so cool,
this whole idea of just and I'm sure a lot
of people in the audience they pray at night and
in their own different ways and their own different approaches.
But what I was raised as a kid, and it
sounds like you raised Kendrick that way too.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Was you know, it's just an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, It's it's not putting on some you know,
a suit or anything and doing this and doing that.
It's just kind of an ongoing conversation with God. And
the concept here now is part of that conversation is
with Kendrick. And Hey, Kendrick, you know, I've got this
friend over here, like Amy and I have. Oh, it's
just so sad, But everybody has one of these stories
right where this beautifully young couple just got married, This
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kid's you know, just just a big important figure in
the sports world, and all of a sudden the stricken
with cancer. And so you're saying to Kendrick, Kendrick, k
will you talk to God and see if it'd be
possible to cure so and so?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And then to me, that's just such a cool idea.
And then if one or more of these healings can
be attributed to Kendrick in this example, then that would
would satisfy that requirement.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Right, that's right, Wow, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, you know I think that Father Patrick will align
more of how the process, will the stages of it. Well,
you know, we are learning as we go as well
means about Catholics our whole life. I mean, we still
really have never as anybody would you know, know a
(25:40):
lot about Saint said, but we're learning about that. But
I think from here, you know, just the the prayers
are the big thing, and then the surrender to the Lord,
having that conversation. You know, I love what you said.
I mean, really a prayer is a personal conversation and
(26:01):
I think in our modern society, people can really benefit
by just doing that. I you know, you're well back
went to you know, of men's religious meeting and they
have that talk, and I think people get hung up
on praying perfectly or having to know every aspect of it,
(26:24):
and it's really just showing that agape love and having
that conversation. And I think if people can do that
and ask Kendrick to help them, that's what we're hoping
for right now. And we hope that it takes traction.
I mean, it's believe it in God's hands.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, And I think that last point is so key that,
you know, for the folks right now who may not
be comfortable for whatever reason, you know, praying and asking
Kendrick to intercede which I'm very excited about myself. It's like, hey, Kendrick,
I know your folks, you know, can help.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Us out here.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But the other part is just going straight to God
and saying, you know, hey, God, you know Kendrick would
be a great saint and would do an awful lot
of goods. So so well, Hey, thanks to both of
you for joining us. And I'm really anxious to talk
again with the Father Dilaretto at five oh six. I
talked to him on the phone yesterday and he's just
(27:24):
whip smart and he knows all this stuff down to
the tee and I just found it fascinating.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah. Yeah, they're very wonderful, very knowledgeable, very supportive. We'll
be listening for sure, and thank you for having us.
You know, this is a something very difficult for Marie
and I too. I mean, we're so blessed and pleased
(27:51):
that this has happened, but it's hard to talk about.
We just feel so humble that we don't want to
We're not trying to advertise this for Hendrick, who wanted
to happen. We wanted to come from the Lord. So
you know, we're very honored that you have with on
the radio today, But we'd like people.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
To know that.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
This isn't the Lord's ends and we're just merely here
is people who raise Kendrick and we love and miss
him and we hope that this works out for him.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Beautifully said well, thank you, John, thank you Maria, and
I'm sure many people from many walks of life want
to get behind this cause, and so really looking forward
to giving everybody that opportunity. And then we'll get you
back on if you're willing and able to real soon.
Thank you, Thanks Maria, Thank you John, talk to you soon,
(28:51):
you too.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
This is.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So exciting, right There's so much good, so much good happening,
so much good that can come from it. And that
just brings back to my final thought on this right now.
Something the archbishop archbishopship you at the time said the
Knight of Columbine. I was handling the coverage for KOA
The Night of Columbine, and I said to Archbishop, I
(29:16):
got to start with the big question on everybody's mind,
why do bad things happen to good people? And he
made the point that God never causes evil to happen,
but God makes greatness come out of evil, and evil
God makes good arise to defeat evil, and Kendrick is
(29:36):
a perfect example of that, and sainthood for Kendrick would
be part of this ongoing good. Right, good rose up
in the form of Kendrick Castile to stop evil from
the plan to execute everybody in the court. And so
much good has flowed from his ultimate sacrifice, the lives
that were saved, the inspiration that Kendrick has bad and
(30:00):
now if that could be carried through further through sainthood,
just the massive amount of good that would again arise
from this this evil act.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That day you're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Show and now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Like it's a whole life change, Like I can't and
I'm gonna be transparent.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I can't pee like I used to pee. It's just
totally different.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
And uh, she not only is a blessing, but she
provided other persons that have gone through what I've gone
through so that I could talk to them and get
some solace in understand like what I'm facing not just
from a doctor, but from another individual. And I have
to have a toll Like it's a totally different life.
(30:47):
I mean, thank God, I'm now I'm done. I depend
on depend you know, if you know what I mean.
I truly depend on depend Like I cannot control my bladder, so.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I get up to go to the bathroom already four
or five times a night.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, Coach Prime really have to appreciate his honesty with
everything that he's going through right now. And thank God,
literally he has survived this bladder cancer cut seven.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Please.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
But then I'm sitting up there waking up, you know,
like my grandson were.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
In the same thing.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
We got the same problem right now, we're going through
the same trials, tribulations. We kind of see who has
the heaviest bag at the end of the night.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Like this.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
It's ridiculous, but I'm making a joke out of it,
but it's real, Like it is real.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
It is real. It is real. So if you see
poor a party on the sideline, it's real. Okay, I'm
just telling you right now. You go see it, you
go see the practice, you go see.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
One, because it is unbelievable, Like dozing off and waking up.
My first thing, I'm grabbing my crops to see if
if I feed on myself, And it's just totally different,
and I know it's a lot of people out there
going through what I'm going through and dealing with what
I'm dealing with, and let's stop being ashamed of it,
(32:10):
and let's deal with it.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
And let's deal with a hit on.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
See, this is the best of Prime, right.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I mean they talk about heroes on the sports field,
and that's true, especially in a sport like football where
there's all of that violence and physical risk. But in
any sport, right there those moments where you have to
show that you know internal heroism. But this is so
far beyond that and so cool the way that he's
handling it. And Ryan, I will make this prediction right now.
Oh just as remember we were the first to predict
(32:36):
on this show that Prime would come to see you
before it was even being talked about publicly.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But we are going to see together the first ten
million dollar porta potty?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Right Who's going to get that sponsorship?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I mean it is going to be you're going to
see more of that porta potty on National TV.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Then you're going to see the flat irons.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, it is going to be a fixture and
some some corporation is going to get their name on
that porta potty and uh, I don't see it for
a law firm. Actually, you know, I'm not sure it's
the right mesh. But and it would be way beyond
our budget. I mean, what do you think that's going
(33:18):
to go for. What do you think the porta potty
sponsorship is going to go for?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Well, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I would say, I'll tell you right now, who's going
to get it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I'm checking the I'm checking the story right now to
see where these doctors are from.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I want to say, yeah, the urology center or.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Something that you see health, right, I mean, I've got
to confirm that, but to see you medical team.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But I bet it's the U see Health porta potty.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
If that's the medical team here, whoever, it is, great job,
medical team. But right that's going to be the first
ten potty. What a cool guy. What a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It does take a lot of.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Moral fortitude but courage to come out with something like
most people want to keep a diagnosis like that private.
But he knows that he has a public platform Dan
that he could use for good and to help inspire
others that might be going through the same thing. I
think it's just such a selfless move by coach sanders.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, and it goes to him talking about God as
well today, right, because that was part of his press
or how about cut nine.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Let me add this for you people that get upset
when I started talking about the lawyer, I never want
student whole journey said God, why me?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Because I would have to say, God, why are you? Why?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
I mean you sitting me up here in front of
these wonderful people. Why you give me the position of
the football coach of the prestigious university. Why you allow
me to follow five wonderful kids, Why you give me
these relationships with these wonderful people?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Why mean, Floyd, did I have some of the things
that I have? I can never say that. I can
never say the other side because I'm hard to ask that.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, so he's doing right. He's a Christian. That's a
beautiful thing. And he's doing what Christians are supposed to do,
which is use their suffering.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
To serve others. Beautiful thing to see. You're on the
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