LEADERS & PARTNERS
ABOUT
SHARON LANZI PITTS
Sharon is a southern born and bred cradle catholic with a full Italian ethnic background who attended Catholic schools in Birmingham, Alabama. she resides there with her husband Joe, her son, his wife and three grandchildren. she refers to as Heart, Soul and Spirit!
She is retired with a successful 35-year career as a Human Resources professional behind her. She taps her management and administrative background for the planning, organizing and logistical skills necessary to orchestrate a smooth and successful pilgrimage. She also calls on her Human Resources experience to match priests and other resources with journeys, lands, and cultures to enrich the pilgrimage experience.
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Sharon and her husband Joe have been on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Rome & Assisi and have traveled to Rome multiple times and visited other Italian cities as well. They also toured Ireland having visited Presentation Sister Rosario (Anna) in Galway whom they’ve known since their childhood.
Sharon views a pilgrimage as not only a spiritual experience, but a cultural experience as well and her organizing and planning as serving and she welcomes you to join her and her priest partner to “Walk the Way”.
About
Father Frankline Fomukong
Father Frankline Fomukong was born in Cameroon, West Africa. He is sixth in a catholic family of seven. Father’s thoughts of becoming a priest came very early at the age of five. Becoming a priest remained the only thing on his mind as he went through a catholic elementary school. He then continued to a Junior Seminary for middle and high school and eventually was admitted into the St. Thomas Aquinas Senior Seminary in Cameroon, affiliated with the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.
Father Frankline was ordained a diocesan priest in 2004, and has served his home diocese as:
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Spiritual Director, Academic Dean and Rector as well as Principal of the same Junior Seminary where he studied
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Chancellor of the Diocese and Secretary to the Bishop
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Diocesan Liturgical Master of Ceremonies
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Chairperson of the Association of Diocesan Priests
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Chaplain to Carmelite contemplative nuns
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Pastor
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Diocesan Secretary for Catholic Education
Upon request to move to the United States, Father Frankline was sent to Alabama in 2018 to serve in the diocese of Birmingham where he is currently the Administrator of St. Charles and St. Joachim churches in Jacksonville Alabama and is the head of campus Ministry at the local university. He is also chaplain to Knights of Columbus and Chaplain to lay Carmelites of the Diocese.
About Father
John Pozhathuparambil
Fr. John hails from Kerala, India. He met a Franciscan at the age of sixteen in the religious class, and he fell in love with Franciscans. Fr. John attended minor seminary at Nirmalaram Minor seminary in Kerala. He professed Solemn Vows in 2000 and was ordained in 2001. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontifical Faculty of St. Joseph Seminary, Managalapuzha, Kerala. He obtained Masters in Literature in 2007. And in 2020, he completed his Doctorate in Theology from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Kentucky.
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For ten years, before he arrived in Louisville, Fr. John served as the Director of Publications, Editor of Amalolbhava, a vernacular magazine Definitor, and Director of Retreats. He arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2010. He co-founded a young adult program(YAFraM) in Louisville, which celebrates a decade of the ministry. Currently, Fr. John works as the Campus Minister at Bellarmine University and Sacramental Moderator of Holy Family. He has a close connection with more than 300 young adults in Louisville and thousands of young adults in all around the world. He has a passion for ministering to young adults.
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In addition to his work at Bellarmine University, he has also been involved in giving students a global perspective by teaching in IDC and Theology departments and taking students to visit India to learn about culture and religions. Fr. John is known for his hospitality and kindness. He won Bellarmine’s Hospitality Award 2016.
