Forming Families, Forming Saints with Fr. Carter Griffin

Familiaris Podcast for Catholic School Leaders · Jul 30, 2026 · 1h 2m

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Fr. Carter Griffin, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and former seminary formator, joins Jaime Madison Vasquez to talk about his book Forming Families, Forming Saints (Emmaus Road). Fr. Griffin’s claim is that the four pillars structuring seminary formation—human, spiritual, intellectual, and apostolic—give parents a framework they can actually use at home. For Catholic school leaders, it offers a shared vocabulary for the work of forming parents as the first educators of their…