And what does Catholic Social Teaching have to say?
Racial Justice
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Gloria Purvis: We need to talk about our Catholic seminaries
This week on the Gloria Purvis Podcast: What are seminarians learning during their formation about engaging and encountering those of different backgrounds or different experiences?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Amazon’s ‘Underground Railroad’ teaches the Black history we do not know well enough
The series executes a breathtaking high-wire act, threading speculative fiction a history most of us still do not know well enough.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
A year after the murder of George Floyd, what has changed?
A year later, what has changed? As we begin to move on from pandemic and re-enter the real world, are we leaving this issue too fast?
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
George Floyd’s murder demanded more from the Catholic Church
On episode one of The Gloria Purvis Podcast, Gloria reflects on the past year since the murder of George Floyd and speaks to a priest from a historically Black parish in the Twin Cities.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
These saints ministered on the margins of privilege and power. They are my spiritual and artistic inspiration today.
I derive much of my hope, inner peace and creative inspiration from those saints and prophets who lived in and spoke from the margins outside the white, privileged worlds of power and authority in both church and society.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I was kicked out of seminary for being too Black. But God wouldn’t let me go.
I wondered if I could even be Catholic anymore, much less continue pursuing the priesthood somewhere else.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When I came out as a gay Catholic, Saints Augustine and Monica helped me grow closer to my mom — and God
My mom and I have dedicated ourselves to loving each other as parent and child and as children of God. I believe Monica and Augustine did the same—even when they were at odds over Augustine’s sexual behavior.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Forum: 7 Black and Latino Catholics respond to the conviction of Derek Chauvin
Gloria Purvis, the Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, MT Dávila, Anthea Butler, Kim Harris, Shannen Dee Williams and Jeremy V. Cruz share their reactions to the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
This is not God’s justice: George Floyd and the Derek Chauvin trial
We are told that this is justice served, and yet there remains a man who should still be breathing who instead is dead.