Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
On this week's episode, Msgr. Roger Landry talks with Father Paul-Anthony Halladay who serves as vocation director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. Father Halladay discusses his calling to the priesthood and specifically, serving as a military chaplain, and what his experience on the ground in war-torn regions brings to his role as vocations director for the military.
00:00 Introduction
02:21 A 'normal' call to the priesthood
03:30 Being an altar server as a young boy with brother
04:15 Parents planting the seed for vocations
06:16 Discerning the priesthood
07:50 A letter from the Archbishop
8:50 Going to seminary
09:50 Understanding we are incarnational
10:50 Learning from living in community
12:10 Being ordained by then-Cardinal Ratzinger
13:35 Memories of ordination day and first Mass
15:00 First assignments in Mobile
16:05 You never forget your first parish
17:55 Road to being a military chaplain
22:00 Serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan...
25:45 Always making Adoration available to military
29:45 If you don't like the outdoors, don't join the army
31:05 Serving at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park
33:00 Converts having call to priestly vocations
34:30 How does the military form its priests?
36:40 Succeeding Father Marcel Taillon as vocations director
40:30 The incredible need for military chaplains
42:50 'A call within a call...'
44;30 What to do if you feel a call toward military chaplaincy
45:55 Fruits of serving as vocations director with military background
47:35 Is it Major Halladay or Father Halladay now?
48:56 Greatest joys serving as a priest
On this week's episode, Msgr. Roger Landry talks with Father Paul-Anthony Halladay who serves as vocation director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. Father Halladay discusses his calling to the priesthood and specifically, serving as a military chaplain, and what his experience on the ground in war-torn regions brings to his role as vocations director for the military.
00:00 Introduction
02:21 A 'normal' call to the priesthood
03:30 Being an altar server as a young boy with brother
04:15 Parents planting the seed for vocations
06:16 Discerning the priesthood
07:50 A letter from the Archbishop
8:50 Going to seminary
09:50 Understanding we are incarnational
10:50 Learning from living in community
12:10 Being ordained by then-Cardinal Ratzinger
13:35 Memories of ordination day and first Mass
15:00 First assignments in Mobile
16:05 You never forget your first parish
17:55 Road to being a military chaplain
22:00 Serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan...
25:45 Always making Adoration available to military
29:45 If you don't like the outdoors, don't join the army
31:05 Serving at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park
33:00 Converts having call to priestly vocations
34:30 How does the military form its priests?
36:40 Succeeding Father Marcel Taillon as vocations director
40:30 The incredible need for military chaplains
42:50 'A call within a call...'
44;30 What to do if you feel a call toward military chaplaincy
45:55 Fruits of serving as vocations director with military background
47:35 Is it Major Halladay or Father Halladay now?
48:56 Greatest joys serving as a priest
