"There's a lot of grief and sadness here. There's no doubt about that," said the Rev. Bob Miller, pastor at St. Dorothy. "We wanted to tell everyone first. They need to hear it from their pastors. We need to take the heat of the stuff we're going through and begin to walk through the process with people. … There's a brand new school emerging out of this. We're the only new school that's going to come out of the … closures."