Join us as Gloria Purvis discusses, "Racial Justice: Solidarity and the Church's Call to Action." This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged.
Gloria Purvis is a graduate of Cornell University and worked for nearly two decades in the mortgage industry before becoming a risk management director at a major financial services company. She served on the National Black Catholic Congress' Leadership Commission on Social Justice, and as an Advisory Board Member on the Maryland Catholic Conference's Respect for Life Department as well as the Archdiocese of Washington's Pastoral Council. She taught Natural Family Planning and helped prepare engaged couples for marriage as a member of a Pre-Cana team in the Archdiocese of Washington. She has appeared in various media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS Newshour, Catholic Answers Live, and EWTN News Nightly, and hosted Morning Glory, an international radio show. She is Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic of the Year for 2020.
Currently, she is a full-time stay-at-home mother and a consultant for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Religious Liberty. Gloria is the creator and host of the EWTN TV series, Authentically Free at Last, that deals with the modern challenges to the expression and understanding of authentic human freedom. For the past 6 months, Gloria has been collaborating with America Media on "The Gloria Purvis Podcast" which has provided important commentary on the life of the Catholic Church in the United States. She is dedicated to promoting the sanctity of human life, marriage, and the dignity of the human person. This year, she is serving as a Pastoral Fellow with the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity. This newly created role is designed to enhance the impact of pastoral leaders in life of the Church, particularly around timely and pressing issues like racial justice.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity.
Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.