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Bishop Shelton Fabre was installed as the fourth bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, in 2013. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 2007 to 2013. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from St. Joseph Seminary College in St. Benedict, Louisiana, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in religious studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Baton Rouge in 1989 and held both pastoral and administrative positions in the diocese.

Bishop Fabre chairs the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism and previously served as chair of the Subcommittee on African American Affairs. He also serves on the Subcommittee for Hispanic Affairs and the Pro-Life Committee.

He previously served as a member of USCCB’s Administrative Committee, the Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church and the USCCB Committee for the American College of Louvain as well as on the Special Task Force to Promote Peace in Our Communities.

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux as Archbishop of Louisville.

Mr. Ashley Morris, Th.M. is the Associate Director of the Office of Intercultural Ministries of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He received a bachelor’s degree in mass media arts, concentrating in radio, TV and film from Clark Atlanta University in 2005 and a master’s of pastoral theology from the Institute of Black Catholic Studies (IBCS) of Xavier University of Louisiana in 2014. He is a member of the Pan African Catholic Organization of Atlanta (PACOA) and the National Association of Black Catholic Administrators (NABCA).

Ashley serves as a consultant on the Subcommittee of African American Affairs and the Bishops Working Group on Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as the Multicultural ad hoc committee of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministers (NFCYM). He has also given multiple presentations and facilitated conversations with a variety of communities on intercultural competency development, Black Catholic history, ministerial discernment and racism. He has taught courses on intercultural competency and young adult ministry for aspirants to the permanent diaconate within the archdiocese and with the IBCS respectively. He has contributed articles to the USCCB and a number of Catholic publications.

Clare Pressimone is a community engagement manager for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the southeast region. Before moving to Atlanta, Clare worked overseas with CRS, most recently implementing education programming in Afghanistan, overseeing private donor-funded projects and implementing updated strategies for remote primary education. Clare also worked with CRS in Malawi, where she supported emergency response programming, and at CRS headquarters in Baltimore in the advocacy department.

Clare has worked with a number of other nonprofit organizations in the U.S. focused on both domestic and international issues. She also served as an English teacher in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for two years with the Salesian Lay Missioners. Clare holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Cabrini University and a master’s degree in international political economy and development from Fordham University.

Deacon Erik was ordained in 2017 in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He is assigned as a permanent deacon to Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Atlanta. He currently leads the Archdiocesan group Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty, is a former board member of Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and has been active in efforts to end capital punishment for the past 25 years. In his secular work, Erik is a Vice President with the data analytics firm Spartan Technologies. He and his wife Nancy have been married for 18 years.

Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam is coordinator of the sector on ecology at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He is also chair of philosophy of science and director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.

Father Kureethadam’s passion is to pass on to younger generations not only a sense of awe and wonder before the grandeur and majesty of the universe, but also a deep sense of concern for the increasingly precarious state of our common planetary home. He has been particularly associated with the study and diffusion of the 2015 encyclical issued by Pope Francis, “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.”

His most recent publications include “Creation in Crisis: Science, Ethics, Theology” (2014), “The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Descartes and the Modern Worldview” (2017) and “The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’” (2019).

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network. Krisanne has 25 years of experience working in national level, faith-based policy advocacy. She has been quoted in sources such as The New York Times, CNN, America Magazine, Crux, National Catholic Reporter, EWTN News Nightly and featured on JustLove Radio on Sirius XM.

For more than a decade, Krisanne served in senior church relations at Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice urging the nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.

Krisanne is co-author of “Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures.” She has a master’s degree in theology from Boston College (formerly Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts). Krisanne and her husband, Jay, reside in Washington, D.C. with their three children.

Patrick Schmadeke is the director of evangelization for the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa.

He is a graduate of St. Ambrose University (2013) and the Master of Divinity program at the University of Notre Dame (2020). Schmadeke contributes regularly to Grotto Network and “The Catholic Messenger.”

He and his wife, Rachel, have two young children.