WASHINGTON, DC – In response to this week’s Executive Orders signed by President Trump, His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, USA (AMS), and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offered the following statement:
Dozens of future U.S. Army and Navy officers braved freezing temperatures, ice, wind, and snow in the Nation’s Capital on Friday, January 24, walking in the 52nd annual March for Life, to unite in prayer and reaffirm the dignity of the human person.
OWENSBORO, KY – The Reverend Mr. Conrad T. Jaconette, 2d Lt USAF, a candidate for Catholic priesthood and United States Military chaplaincy, was ordained a transitional deacon on Saturday, Jan. 4, in his home Diocese of Owensboro, KY. The new deacon is on track to be ordained a priest later this year and hopes eventually to serve as a Catholic chaplain in the United States Air Force, providing pastoral care to Catholic airmen, space guardians, and their families, with endorsement and faculties from the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS).
This year the SEEK Conference was held in two locations. More than seventeen-thousand students and parishioners attended in Salt Lake City, UT, while over 3,000 participated in Washington.
Father Paul-Anthony Halladay, CH (MAJ), USA (Ret.), a retired, decorated 20-year veteran U.S. Army chaplain, succeeds interim Vocations director Father Marcel Taillon, who recently completed a successful eight-month run in the position pending search for a permanent successor.
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