Prospective Catholic U.S. Military chaplains pray during discernment retreat at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, CA, on April 1, 2022.
Twenty-one men gathered in Menlo Park, CA, February 16-19 for a retreat aimed at helping them discern if they are called by the Holy Spirit to be Catholic priests and U.S. Military chaplains. The AMS Vocations Office held the retreat at St. Patrick’s Seminary in hopes of relieving a chronic shortage of Catholic priests on active duty.
The prospective chaplain candidates included eight from the U.S. Army, including four cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY; one from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD; eight from the U.S. Air Force, including four cadets from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO; and four civilians with no military
