Married men have been ordained to the Catholic priesthood since time immemorial in the Eastern Churches, and Chicago-born Julian Hayda comes from a long line of Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests which stretches back 400 years. I am a couple of minutes into my meeting with him when his phone rings. “It’s my wife,” he says. I encourage him to take the call, and we go onto mute for a couple of minutes while I make a mental note of the predictably dull décor of the hotel room in Washington, DC, where he is billeted.
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A Seminary at War
Seminarian Julian Hayda explains how he and his brothers – who are taking to the frontline in Ukraine – are fulfilling their vocations to Holy Orders as stretcher bearers, firemen and relief workers
Serenhedd James

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