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The New Jersey native and former university administrator has been a member of the Oblates, the nation’s oldest Black Catholic order, since 1998.

Rogers Griffin was hired to shut the school down. Instead, he helped save it—and led it for more than two decades.

By: Ange Toussaint | KATC3

LAFAYETTE PARISH — When Rogers Griffin first stepped into Holy Family Catholic School in 1999, he was given one mission: close the doors with dignity.

“The school had 75 students, the diocese was funding it, and they made a decision they were going to do one more year of subsidy,” Griffin said.

Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service

The Gospel parable of the “wasteful sower” who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path “is an image of the way God loves us,” Pope Leo XIV told visitors and pilgrims at his first weekly general audience.

The parable can strike people as odd because “we are used to calculating things — and at times it is necessary — but this does not apply in love,” the pope told an estimated 40,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square May 21.

The Massachusetts native helped popularize a formerly top-secret coding language and later led the Black Catholic office in the Archdiocese of Boston.