LOUISE HAGGETT, President/Founder
Louise serendipitously discovered a severe priest shortage and clergy sexual abuse in the priesthood simultaneously in 1991 after being unable to find a priest to visit her mother in a senior assisted living facility. She founded CITI in 1992. She was educated at Boston University and Framingham State College and has a 35-year business background in advertising, television, marketing and sales.

In 1995, Haggett resigned her fulltime sales position in order to continue her education in the sociological field, leading her to publish in 2005 The Bingo Report: mandatory celibacy and clergy sexual abuse. Bingo presents two quantitative studies (priests and victims) and a literary study linking mandatory celibacy to clergy sexual abuse. It is available on amazon.com or through CITI’s bookstore.

REV. RICHARD HASSELBACH, Esquire, CITI Counsel and Host of rentapriest.blogspot.com
Richard was ordained a Franciscan in 1978 and became a campus ministry at Sienna College. He later taught at St. Bonaventure University. Richard obtained his JD at Boston College and PhD at Fordham University. In addition to his pastoral ministry, he currently is an Attorney Mediator with Hudson Valley Mediation Services, NY. He is also a published author of several articles on law, theology and spirituality.

REV. JAMES MAGMER, Deceased, advisory member and former editor of CITI’s newsletter.

REV. FRANK MCGRATH, Acting Chairman of the Board
Ordained for the Archdiocese in 1957, Fr. McGrath served in several Chicago area parishes for fifteen years, and for 25 years was a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, with assignments at the Chicago Police Academy, City-Wide and Truman Colleges.

In 1973, he was one of five Chicago priests who founded CORPUS, a national association of resigned/married priests, established to urge the utilization of an existing married priesthood and to encourage married priests to resume ministry. Within a few years it became possibly the largest association of married priests in church history.

He earned a doctorate in education from Indiana University. Now retired, he and his wife, Mary, while continuing to maintain a Chicago home, spend most of the year in Florida where he is active in local ecumenical activities– an interest begun over forty years ago when he served on the staff of Msgr. Jack Egan's Office of Urban Affairs. He is available for ministerial services upon request.

Fr. McGrath serves on the Advisory Board because he recognizes CITI as continuing the work originally designed for and begun by CORPUS. He is most supportive of CITI's lay leadership and their mission to call married priests back into ministry within our Roman Catholic Tradition.

REV. JEAN WILFRED PELLETIER
Jean is a married priest who met his wife, Fran, when both were active Cursillo directors. After study at St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore, MD and Seminaire Saint Sulpice in Paris, Jean was ordained in 1955 at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. He left the canonical priesthood after 29 years of active ministry that included being an Instructor and Spiritual Director of a seminary and pastor of a large suburban parish. In addition to the Cursillo Movement, his ministry includes work with ecumenical groups and facilitating Graceful Grieving sessions to assist persons with losses to work through their feelings. Jean offers his expertise in Contemplative Prayer to interested individuals and groups. He is ready to serve the community and provide a sacramental presence whenever needed and requested. Jean and his wife co-minister in officiating at marriages and doing retreat work. Together they conduct worship services for non-denominational congregations. Jean is also a volunteer chaplain at Brunswick Community Hospital, and is an accomplished artist and gifted homilist.

FRAN SALONE-PELLETIER, Come As You Are co-editor
Married in 1984 to Fr. Jean, Fran is the mother of four adult children and grandmother of four. She holds a Master's Degree in Theology with a concentration in Scripture and had worked professionally as a Director of Religious Education for 12 years in three dioceses. Presently, she is a freelance writer. contributor to The American Catholic, has a weekly religion column in The Brunswick Beacon and is a guest speaker, lecturer, and retreat leader for a variety of religious groups.. Fran is the author of a trilogy of meditative reflections based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Awakening to God: The Sunday Readings in Our Lives, published by Bayard/23rd Publications.

Fran is Lead Chaplain and Administrative Liaison for the Chaplaincy Program at Brunswick Community Hospital in North Carolina as well as Chaplain and Board Chairperson for the Shallotte Point Volunteer Fire Department. She also facilitates a Bible Study and co-ministers with her husband in officiating at marriages and doing retreat work.

REV. WILLIAM PODOBINSKI, Treasurer Emeritus, Board of Directors

DONNA AMY PODOBINSKI, Consultant
Donna is a former Carmelite contemplative and a writer of numerous religious papers, reflections, prayers and songs, among which was a blueprint for a new inclusive religious society which name Society of Christ’s Priesthood was adopted (with permission) by CITI for its married priest certification program.

REV. STEPHEN SABANOS, Treasurer
Steve is a married priest, ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland in 1974. He and his wife, Mary, live in Strongsville, Ohio. They have one child, a daughter. As a canonical priest, he served 2 parishes in the Cleveland area as associate pastor. After transitioning from the canonical priesthood, Steve continued his education by obtaining another degree in accounting, along with his B.A. and M. Div. For the past 20 some years, he has worked in the accounting area and is currently a Controller for a small manufacturing business in northeast Ohio. Steve experienced a call to return to more active ministry as a married priest through the support and encouragement of CITI Ministries. For the past several years he has been responding to the needs of ‘roamin’ Catholics whenever asked.

REV. JOHN SHUSTER, Vice President, Board of Directors
John is a married priest who has been with CITI since 1994. He has an MA in Divinity from CTU and, at present, holds down an executive position with a major medical company in Seattle that covers Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. John administrates CITI's email discussion list for married priests and concerned Catholics: CITI-L.

JERRY SIEGMUND, received an education in Philosophy and Theology at St. Gregory’s Seminary and University of Dayton, holds two Certificates in Scripture Studies from the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut and has taught Scripture to adults for over 25 years. He was employed by the Diocese of Burlington, VT to teach Scripture to adults studying to be Lay Ministers and to teach Introductory courses on the Bible to adult catechists. He worked in sales and marketing for a specialty chemical firm, rising to International Vice-President. He started his own business in 1984, importing and manufacturing specialty equipment for the manufacture of printed circuits boards, which was sold in 1992. He has retired to the Myrtle Beach, SC area, is a widower with three grown sons and seven grandchildren.