Fr. Thomas Croteau, SJ was born in Denver and educated in Catholic elementary and high schools, where he first began discerning a religious vocation. He attended Ave Maria University, where encounters with Jesuit priests, whose joy in ministry and genuine engagement with students inspired him and led him to the Society of Jesus. During Jesuit formation, he studied philosophy at Saint Louis University, taught theology at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, and earned a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He previously served at St. Peter Claver Parish in Punta Gorda, Belize, and is currently pursuing a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture (SSL) at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome after just completing a semester at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem. 

Fr. Diego Alonso-Lasheras, SJ is a Jesuit From Spain who joined the Society of Jesus in 1993. After his Jesuit formation he was missioned to the Gregorian University where he has been teaching since 2008 Catholic Social Ethics.

Fr. Bryan Lobo, SJ is a Jesuit priest originally from India who has been residing in Rome since 2002. He completed his licentiate and doctoral studies in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he subsequently joined the Faculty of Missiology. He served as Director of the Department of Theology of Religions and later as Dean of the Faculty of Missiology. He has recently concluded a sabbatical at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Prof. Stephen McKinney is a professor in the School of Education, University of Glasgow. He studied at the Gregorian University in the 1980s and was awarded a Licence in Philosophy and a Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology. His other qualifications include a Philosophy degree from Edinburgh University, a Masters’ degree in Social Science Research and a doctorate in Catholic education, both from the University of Glasgow. He is also a fully qualified teacher in Catholic Religious Education. He has worked in Catholic education in Scotland for over thirty-five years as a school teacher, College lecturer and university professor.

Carole Brown is a 2025 graduate of the Renewal Program for Missionaries at the Gregorian University. She lives in the USA, and works in the Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota. For the past 7 years, she has served as director of a small retreat center that serves native American Catholics. Her work there includes ministry with indigenous people, as well as spiritual direction and retreat ministry. She got her PhD in Theology at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland. Her topic was “The Conversion of the Baptized in the Thought of Pope John Paul II.”

Fr. Jorge Castillo, SJ is a Jesuit priest from Ecuador, South America. For the past two years, he has been studying at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. His experience of God developed while working with young people in Fe y Alegría in Peru during his philosophy studies. He completed his studies in Bogotá, Colombia, where his interest in the Bible was born after witnessing a real exodus: hundreds of migrants from Venezuela crossing the continent in search of a new future. His main interests are the Bible of the Septuagint and, in particular, the Book of Isaiah, especially its reception and translation into Greek, and the analysis of how theology was articulated within the world of words.

Fr. Rogério Alves Gomes, a Brazilian priest, currently resides in Rome at the Pontificio Collegio Pio Brasiliano. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition to his doctoral studies, he serves as the Academic Director of the St. Barnabas Pastoral Education and Training Center in Cyprus, where he oversees the Biblical-Theological Formation School for Lay People. He holds a Master’s degree in Exegesis, Biblical Sciences, and Archaeology from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.

Mr. Taylor Fulkerson, SJ recently completed his regency at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, where he taught religion and Latin American history and accompanied students in their academic and spiritual formation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he participated in outreach ministry with Cincinnati’s homeless population, served as a research assistant, and studied abroad in Nicaragua, volunteering at a preschool. Proficient in Spanish and able to read French, he began theology studies this fall at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, continuing his Jesuit formation within the global Ignatian tradition.

Fr. Paul Mueller SJ was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended St. Xavier High School, a Jesuit school. He earned a degree in physics at Boston University. As a Jesuit he completed a M.A. in philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and taught physics and mathematics at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in Chicago. He then earned two degrees at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley: master of divinity and master of sacred theology. After ordination, he earned a masters degree in physics at the University of Chicago and continued there to complete a doctorate in history and philosophy of science. He then served as professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he was also academic dean of the Jesuit First Studies Program and of St. Joseph College Seminary. In 2010 Fr. Mueller was appointed religious superior of the Jesuit community at the Vatican Observatory, where he was also a member of the research staff. In 2022 he was appointed religious superior of the Jesuit community of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and in 2024 he was appointed Prefect of Libraries for the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Appointed Archbishop of Dijon in 2022, Monsignor Antoine Hérouard is also First Vice-President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and Co-President of the European Commission for Justice and Peace. Having studied at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome and the Gregorian, Bachelor of Philosophy (1981), Bachelor of Theology (1984), Archbishop Hérouard was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Paris in 1985. Post ordination he obtained the Canonical Licentiate in Moral Theology (1986) at the Gregorian. He has held numerous pastoral and national responsibilities, notably as Secretary General of the French Bishops’ Conference from 2005 to 2013, then as Rector of the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome before being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Lille in 2017, he also served as Apostolic Delegate for the Shrine of Lourdes.

Fr. James R. Page, SJ, a Jesuit priest from New Orleans, Louisiana. He pursued his undergraduate studies in economics at Pomona College, also spending a semester abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wherein he continued his engagement with Hebrew and Jewish studies. He later went for further studies, this time in philosophy at Regis College in the University of Toronto, focusing in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Following this, he taught Scripture at St. Louis University High School before going to the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry for theology. He is currently in Rome pursuing a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, a mission of the Pontifical Gregorian University.