Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, a native of Iowa, joined the Jesuits in 2007 after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. He has graduate degrees from Loyola University Chicago and Boston College and a doctorate of missiology from the Gregorian University. Active on social media, Fr. Rossmann is the creator of the “One-Minute Homily” and “One-Minute Jesuit” video series. He posts a weekly reflection at amdg.substack.com. Fr. Rossmann is the author of The Freedom of Missing Out and Online Pre-Evangelization. He currently serves in campus ministry and teaches theology at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also the superior of Arrupe House.
Fr. Matt Faucett is a priest of the Diocese of Green Bay and serves as an active-duty US Army Chaplain. He was ordained in 2019 and served in several parishes in Northeastern Wisconsin. He attended St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University (STB, 2018). He is currently an MBA student at University of the Incarnate Word (TX). In 2025 he was assigned to Arlington National Cemetery, where he is blessed to serve veterans and family members.
Sister Alessandra Casneda, OSB, is a Benedictine religious and biblical scholar who is from Milan, Italy. After completing her studies in philosophy and theology, she pursued advanced studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where she earned a Doctorate in Biblical Sciences. She presently serves as Professor of New Testament in the Department of Biblical Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Collegium Maximum, a mission of the Pontifical Gregorian University. Her current research centers on the Gospel of John, with particular attention to the methods of ancient literary criticism. Sister Alessandra also collaborates with the Italian Major Superiors Union (USMI) and the Benedictine Italian Theological Studium (STBI) in the formation and theological education of young religious sisters and monks.
Fr. Scott N. Brodeur, SJ is a native of New Hampshire and joined the Jesuits in 1980 after graduating from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and French. He did graduate studies in Paris, the former Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and then in Rome and Jerusalem at the Biblical Institute and Gregorian University. He has taught the letters of St. Paul in the Greg’s Theology Faculty since 1995 to thousands of students from around the world, in addition to English-speaking priests on sabbatical at the North American College. He has published books and articles in English, Italian, and Portuguese, and has also successfully directed over fifty doctoral students, with eleven more currently on the way. He has guided study tours and pilgrimages in the footsteps of Paul and other apostles to Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Rome. He also serves as the Theology faculty’s delegate to the Catholic University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. In recognition of his dozen years of exceptional service to that Jesuit university, he was awarded a doctoral degree honoris causa in November 2025.
