WASHINGTON, D.C.—The AMS will soon have a new interim Director of Vocations. Father Marcel Taillon starts his new ministry on April 15. He succeeds Father S. Matthew Gray, Ch, Capt, USAF, who was recently called back to his home Diocese of Charleston, SC, following two years as AMS Vocations Director, and is now deployed in the Middle East with the South Carolina Air National Guard.
Father Taillon, 58, is well suited for the position with experience as a vocations director and recruiter in his home Diocese of Providence, and director of spiritual formation at Our Lady of Providence Seminary. For the past 17 years he has served as pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Narragansett, RI, which counts among its membership servicemen and women from nearby Naval Station Newport. Father Taillon is a chaplain for the Narragansett Police and Fire Departments and the South Kingston Police Department.
