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PAGE 2 THE CATHOLIC WEEK JANUARY 10, 2025 The Catholic Week JANUARY 10, 2025 Volume 91, Number 1 Official Publication of the Archdiocese of Mobile Published since 1934 The Catholic Week (USPS 094-660) is published bi-weekly by the Archdiocese of Mobile 356 Government Street Mobile, AL 36602 Periodical Postage Paid at Mobile, Alabama —POSTMASTER— Send address changes to: The Catholic Week, PO Box 349, Mobile, AL 36601 Mobile P.S. Form 3541-N —PUBLISHER— Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi —EDITOR— Robert W. Herbst 251-434-1544 rherbst@mobarch.org —ADVERTISING— Claudia T. Sims 251-434-1543 csims@mobarch.org —OFFICE HOURS— 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday —PHONE NUMBERS— 251-432-3529 FAX: 251-434-1547 —OFFICE ADDRESS— 356 Government Street Mobile, Alabama —MAILING ADDRESS— PO Box 349 • Mobile AL 36601 —WEBSITE— mobarch.org/thecatholicweek —ONLINE EDITION— www.mobarch.org —SUBSCRIPTIONS— Claudia T. Sims 251-434-1543 csims@mobarch.org Subscriptions, $25 annually Address all subscription correspondence to The Catholic Week , PO Box 349, Mobile AL 36601. When changing address, renew- ing or inquiring about a subscrip- tion, customer should include a recent address label with old ad- dress and new address and allow four weeks for address change to take effect. DEADLINES for JANUARY 24, 2025 News copy and photos: JANUARY 14, 2025, NOON Advertising Camera-ready Ads: JANUARY 14, 2025, NOON ByThe CatholicWeek Fr. Frank Joseph Bolling, who had been a priest for 20 years, died Jan. 1, 2025, at the age of 94. Fr. Bolling was born on March 1, 1930, in Mobile. He attended grammar school in Meridian, Miss., before the family moved to Valdosta, Ga., and then to Birmingham, dur- ing his high school years. After two years at St. Bernard’s College in Cullman, Fr. Bolling entered St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in 1950 with the intention of discerning a vocation to priesthood His father’s death in 1954, led to him withdrawing from seminary studies to support his mother and sister. He joined the U.S. Navy Reserves and worked as a tax officer supervisor for the City of Mobile for 25 years. In 2002, after retirement from his civil profession, Fr. Bolling was accepted as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Mobile and resumed discern- ment toward priesthood. He was ordained on May 29, 2004, at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile. His first assignment was as chaplain to the Sacred Heart Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor, where he served until 2008. As his health allowed, Fr. Bolling filled in for pastors by offering Masses and ministry at parishes throughout the archdiocese. Mass of Christian Burial was scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 7 at the chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Resi- dence. Interment was to follow in the priests' section of the Catholic Cemetery of Mobile. FR. FRANK JOSEPH BOLLING: 1930-2025 Fr. Bolling, ordained at age 74, passes away FR. FRANK JOSEPH BOLLING Information courtesy of the Archdiocese for the Military Services Fr. Paul Halladay, a priest of the Arch- diocese 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 priest- hood in 2000 and served at St. Pius X and St. Igna- tius 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. ArchbishopThomas 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 Mili- tary 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 Ameri- can 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 re- quest … to be the new vocation director for AMS took me by complete surprise, cannot accurately convey what I was truly think- ing 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.” ARCHDIOCESE FOR THE MILITARY SERVICES Mobile's Fr. Halladay appointed vocation director FR. PAUL HALLADAY By CINDYWOODEN Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launch- ing what he called a "Jubilee of Hope." As the doors opened, the bells of the basilica began to peal. After the reading of a brief passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus describes himself as "the door," Pope Francis briefly left the atrium of the basilica, creating some con- fusion. But when the cardinals in the front row sat down, the others did likewise. Three minutes later, the pope returned.He was pushed in his wheelchair up the ramp to the Holy Door. In silence, he raised himself from the chair to knock five times, and aides inside slowly opened the door, which had been framed in a garland of green pine branches, decorated with red roses and gold pinecones. Opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica has been a fixture of the Catholic Church's celebra- tion of jubilee years since the Holy Year 1450, the Vatican said. CNS photo/Vatican Media Pope Francis pauses in prayer before knocking on the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Dec. 24 to open it and inaugurate the Holy Year 2025. Pope Francis opens Holy Door, launching 'Jubilee of Hope' JUBILEE 2025