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Our Man at the Vatican
“The first time the idea came to my mind, I laughed at it,” John Bartunek says about his calling to be a priest. “I was a Protestant, not really interested in giving up the things priests have to give up.
Fr john bartunek biography definition
But once it was in the back of my mind, it never went away. It just kept getting brighter and brighter, like a sunrise.”
Ordained in 2003, Father Bartunek now resides in the hills above St. Peter’s Cathedral and sometimes works as a press liaison for the Vatican.
A member of the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order started in Mexico and represented in more than 30 countries, he lives in community with 250 fellow legionaries. Earning an advanced degree in moral theology, he fills his time with classes, study and at least three hours a day of prayer.
He served the late Pope John Paul II’s Mass three times and jokes that everyone has a John Paul II story.
“It was very exciting for me as a person with no Catholic background and then there I was serving t