Mobile's Fr. Halladay appointed vocation director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services

Information courtesy of the Archdiocese for the Military Services
Fr. Paul Halladay, a priest of the Archdiocese of Mobile, has been appointed vocation director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, effective Jan. 22.
Fr. Halladay is a retired, decorated 20-year veteran U.S. Army chaplain. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2000 and served at St. Pius X and St. Ignatius Parishes in Mobile and St. Columba Parish in Dothan before finishing Chaplain Candidate School at Fort Jackson, S.C., and entering active duty as a U.S. Army chaplain in September 2004.
Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi granted a release to the Archdiocese for the Military Services for a five-year term.
“It is very positive that Fr. Halladay has accepted the role of vocation director for the AMS,” said Most Rev. Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. His years of experience as an Army chaplain, his familiarity with this archdiocese, and his great priestly virtue will help him as he succeeds (interim vocation director) Fr. (Marcel) Taillon to whom the AMS owes a debt of gratitude.  
“I have known Father Halladay since his days as a seminarian at the North American College—where he and I played tennis with another great chaplain, the late Msgr. Charles Elmer.  I am also very grateful to Archbishop (Thomas J.) Rodi of Mobile who released Father Paul Anthony for this ministry.”
Fr. Halladay added: “To say that the request … to be the new vocation director for AMS took me by complete surprise, cannot accurately convey what I was truly thinking in the moment. However, the Lord has a consistent track record of completely surprising me when it comes to where He’s calling me to serve Him.”
As AMS vocation director, Fr. Halladay will be in charge of shepherding young men expressing an interest in the priesthood and U.S. Military chaplaincy through the process of discernment and formation. “I look very much forward to serving the AMS and the young men we have in discernment for the Priesthood and Military Chaplaincy,” he said.