While Donald Trump’s executive orders claim to defend civil rights through “colorblind” neutrality, his rhetoric exposes what this supposed neutrality protects: not equality, but an unjust racial status quo.
Gloria Purvis
Gloria Purvis is an author, commentator and the host and executive producer of The Gloria Purvis Podcast and hosted Morning Glory, an international radio show. She has appeared in a variety of media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, Fox News, PBS Newshour, NPR, Newsweek, and Catholic Answers Live, speaking as a strong Catholic voice for life issues, religious liberty, and racial justice.
Posted inFaith and Reason
What are Black Catholics hearing when church leaders praise Charlie Kirk?
For many Black Catholics familiar with Charlie Kirk’s full record, endorsements of his message by Catholic leaders can be devastating.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Gloria Purvis at the Eucharistic Congress: Respect the pope, repent of racism and put God over politics
In her keynote address at the Eucharistic Congress, Gloria Purvis warned that disloyalty to Pope Francis, the sin of racism and putting political parties above God threaten the unity of the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
When God’s will doesn’t match up with the world’s
A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Gloria Purvis
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Feel like you’ve failed this Lent? God is still with you.
A Reflection of the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Gloria Purvis
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
We Need to Talk About Race: Lessons from ‘The Gloria Purvis Podcast’
We need to use the minds that God gave us to break down this injustice.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Bishop Shelton Fabre to Black Catholics: Don’t let the church’s sins keep you from Christ
“Do not allow the humanity, the human sin of the church to blot out who it is that we believe in and who [it is that] comes to us, Jesus Christ,” Bishop Shelton said in a recent conversation with Gloria Purvis.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Pro-life and pro-Black: Meet a woman who’s changing the conversation about racism and abortion
Gloria Purvis and Cherilyn Holloway, the founder of Pro-Black Pro-Life, discuss how the voices of Black people are often overlooked or tokenized within the pro-life movement.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The difference between Jan. 6 rioters and Black Lives Matter—and the Catholics who refuse to see it
Why do some members of our church, clergy and laity alike, perceive racial justice movements as more of a threat to the republic than the movement that led to the assault on Congress?
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
How faith leaders can prevent the next Jan. 6
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, talks with Gloria Purvis about how the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 are not as different from ordinary Americans as you might think.