Father Paul Check
Father Paul Check has served as the Executive Director of Courage International since 2008. In addition, he teaches moral theology to seminarians and permanent deacon candidates in the Diocese of Bridgeport.
Andrew Comiskey
Andrew Comiskey (M.Div.) has worked extensively with the healing of the sexually and relationally broken. He is the Founding Director of Desert Stream/Living Waters Ministries, a multifaceted outreach which he started in 1980.
Andrew’s ministry grows out of his own commitment to overcome homosexuality and his experience as a husband to Annette, as a father of four children, and as a grandfather to five grandkids.
He is the author of Pursuing Sexual Wholeness (Creation House), Strength in Weakness (InterVarsity Press), Naked Surrender: Coming Home to Our True Sexuality (InterVarsity Press) and the Living Waters healing program.
Andrew is active in St. Thomas More Parish in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill Consiglio
Bill Consiglio is founder and director of HOPE Ministries, the author of Homosexual No More, and a part-time pastoral counselor offering sexual orientation resolution therapy.
John Cuddeback
John Cuddeback is a professor of philosophy at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., and the author of True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness (Epic Publishing, 2010). His website, dedicated to the philosophy of household, is www.baconfromacorns.com.
Sister J. Sheila Galligan, I.H.M.
Sister J. Sheila Galligan, I.H.M., is a professor of theology at Immaculata University. She is the author of numerous articles and frequently makes presentations at parish and archdiocesan events.
Bishop Mark Seitz
Bishop Mark Seitz was the Courage chaplain in the Diocese of Dallas–Fort Worth for 12 years. He was ordained an auxiliary bishop in 2010, and became Bishop of El Paso in 2013.
Bishop James Wall
Bishop James Wall was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix in 1998. In 2009, he was named Bishop of Gallup, with territory of more than 55,000 square miles in the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Father Robert McTeigue, S.J.
Father Robert McTeigue, S.J., is a member of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. A professor of philosophy and theology, he has long experience in spiritual direction, retreat ministry and religious formation. He teaches at Ave Maria University, and is known for his classes both in Rhetoric and in Medical Ethics.
Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce was received into the Catholic Church in 1989, and has authored numerous books on Catholic literary figures. He appears frequently on EWTN, and since 2014 has been the Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Father Rafael Mary Salzillo, O.P.
Father Rafael Mary Salzillo, O.P., is a Dominican priest pursuing a Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. A convert from evangelical Protestantism, he pursued degrees in applied physics before entering the consecrated life. He serves as a Courage chaplain in South Bend, Indiana.