Robert F. Griffin
Rev. Fr. Robert F. Griffin, CSC (October 7, 1925 – October 20, 1999) was a Roman Catholic Priest for the Congregation of Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame.
Biography
Robert "Griff" Griffin was born in Portland, Maine, where he attended Deering High School. A Baptist convert to Catholicism, he entered the novitiate upon graduation from Notre Dame in 1949 and was ordained a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross in 1954. He spent the next several years teaching and furthering his own education. In 1958 he received a Master of Arts degree from Notre Dame.
In the mid-1960s Father Griffin returned to Notre Dame to serve in the Office of Campus Ministry as a residence hall chaplain, where his contribution to student life and spirituality began to flourish, as a talent became manifest for ministering to the marginalized, or those who felt on the margins. He spent his summers ministering to the homeless of Greenwich Village in New York City.
Fr. Griffin was known widely for his weekly article in Our Sunday Visitor entitled "Everyday Spirituality," or his column in the Notre Dame student newspaper, The Observer, entitled "Letters to a Lonely God." His essays appeared in three collections: In The Kingdom of the Lonely God, I Never Said I Didn't Love You, and The Continuing Conversation.