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**The Gloria Purvis Podcast**

Too many voices are not being heard in the Catholic Church today. “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” is a new podcast from America Media hosted by radio personality and Catholic commentator, Gloria Purvis. The podcast centers the opinions, stories and experiences of individuals who have been marginalized in the Catholic Church and in society. A consistent ethic of life informs the conversations and honestly critiques narrow applications of Catholic teachings and ideological attitudes. It’s not liberal, it’s not conservative. It’s all about fostering a culture of charitable dialogue around the most complex and contentious issues in the Catholic Church today. It’s just Catholic. Episodes will release weekly.
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Latest Episodes:

Why Archbishop Cordileone condemns the death penalty Nov 08, 2022

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Archbishop Cordileone returns to the podcast to discuss his opposition to the death penalty.

Archbishop Cordileone: It is past time to strike down the death penalty

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An honest look at slavery in the Christian tradition Nov 01, 2022

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The Bible has been invoked in defense of slavery and to overthrow it. Some saints have confronted slavery, while others have turned a blind eye, or worse, developed theological arguments to support it. The Catholic church has a mixed history, especially when it comes to chattel slavery, and its one we should know about.

This week, Gloria interviews Chris Kellerman, SJ. about his new book,

All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism and The Catholic Church.

Chris brings an eye-opening knowledge of history and a faith that wrestles deeply with the horrors of slavery.

“For every saint that we find out was a slaveholder, for every pope that we find out, you know, did something crazy, there's another person who was fighting against it” says Chris. “There's a great sense of that hope that there was a change. And a lot of that change came through people speaking up and good Catholics speaking up and saying, based on my faith I know this isn't right.”

Chris Kellerman is a Jesuit and serves as Assistant for Justice and Ecology of the Central and Southern Province of the Jesuits.

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Racism in our hospitals Oct 25, 2022

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Did you know that Black women are more likely to die from preventable childbirth complications than white women? Or that Black women make up less than 2 percent of psychiatrists?

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Dr. Amanda Joy Calhoun about the deep vestiges of racism in our medical institutions and the strategies she is using to challenge and correct them in her own practice. Dr. Calhoun is an adult and child psychiatry resident at the Yale School of Medicine. She is an expert at exposing racism in the medical system and mitigating the effects of racism on Black Americans. Dr. Calhoun firmly believes that all doctors should be activists and is a fellowship coach of The Oped Project.

Dr. Calhoun shares disturbing accounts of how she’s witnessed racism in the hospital setting, among both white patients and staff.

“It has little to do with the psychiatric illness. Mental illness is used as a scapegoat for racism,” Dr. Calhoun says of white patients who have lashed out with hate speech at Black patients. “But oftentimes these kids that are saying these N-words, they’re about to leave the hospital, they’re stable. This is just the word they use to describe people. It's not that they're in this episode where they don't know what they're saying.”

Just as troubling, is the preference white staff shows to white patients:

“Anecdotally, I had been looking at the fact that it seemed that predominantly white staff, which is medicine, were much quicker to put my Black patients in restraints, than white patients.”

There is no standard training or treatment for dealing with racism in hospitals, but Dr. Calhoun is quick to provide her expert recommendation: “I use the word racist. I think we need to own it.”

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How the Catholic imagination can preserve the lost art of reading Oct 18, 2022

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On this episode, Gloria speaks with Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of several books including The Scandal of Holiness, Reading for the Love of God, and Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov, which received a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award in the Culture & the Arts.

Gloria and Jessica dive deep into the Catholic imagination–exploring writers like Toni Morrison and the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. She also believes in reclaiming the practice of reading, especially for children growing up today:

“I try to tell this to parents: it's not really about making sure that your kid recites all the history or knows all the facts,” says Jessica, “ It's just recognizing that they're being shaped by a worldview in which the story began before them.”

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Capital punishment promises retribution, restorative justice offers healing Oct 04, 2022

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To help us kick off October’s “Respect Life” month, Gloria is speaking with Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy about how a Catholic vision of restorative justice must guide our advocacy against the death penalty. Krisanne is the executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network, a national organization that mobilizes Catholics and all people of goodwill to value life over death, to end the use of the death penalty, to transform the U.S. criminal justice system from punitive to restorative, and to build capacity in U.S. society to engage in restorative practices.

In this episode, Krisanne explains the differences between a retributive and restorative model of justice and what each looks like in practice.

“Restorative justice is not about no consequences,” says Krisanne, “You know, fundamental to restorative justice is an accountability. When people actually get to the point that they can admit that they've created a harm or they've harmed another, when they can get to that point where they're repentant. I mean, that's transformative. That's a different kind of justice."

Gloria and Krisanne review the history of Catholic teaching on capital punishment, papal condemnations of the practice, and how it finally became impermissable according the the catechism.

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What are the anti-woke crusaders missing? Sep 27, 2022

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Gloria muses on some of the arguments emerging from the anti-woke brigade. She challenges the idea that wokism, or a commitment to racial justice, emerged from philosophies of German philosophers like Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Tracing the roots of woke culture and intersectionality, Gloria makes clear that these social movements are grounded in the Black experience and that they provide the necessary framework for pursuing justice in the church and society.

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What the Bible can tell us about race in heaven Sep 20, 2022

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Whether you love reading the Bible or could use a refresher, Fr. Josh Johnson has you covered in his new book, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Restoring God's Vision of Race and Discipleship.

Fr. Josh and Gloria talk about how our Christian discipleship must involve actively bridging racial divides, so that our lives on earth might more closely reflect God’s heavenly vision as described in holy Scripture. Their conversation is full of powerful stories that exemplify how this ministry of authentic relationship and reconciliation is already being put to action, and what becomes possible when “we get out of our little holy huddles.”

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How is our data safeguarded in the church? Sep 13, 2022

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Gloria Purvis muses on the role of privacy in the confessional, how the church can better safeguard data on its parishioners, and what we all can do to protect our privacy and that of our family on social media.

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The bishop leading the ‘Eucharistic Revival’ is piercing hearts and slashing budgets Sep 06, 2022

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Welcome back to the second season of the Gloria Purvis Podcast! On this episode, Gloria speaks to Bishop Andrew Cozzens, who was appointed by Pope Francis to be bishop of the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota in 2021. Bishop Cozzens is the chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis where on behalf of the bishops he is leading a three-year National Eucharistic Revival that began this past June.

Gloria and Bishop Cozzens discuss the meaning of the Eucharist, the plans for the Eucharistic Revival and the modern complexities of dealing with political controversies and communion. Bishop Cozzens also shares the importance of continuing transparency and pastoral leadership amid the sexual abuse crisis.

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A message from Gloria Purvis to listeners Jul 05, 2022

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Thank you! That's what Gloria and her team wants to say to you, our listeners, as we close a year-long first season of The Gloria Purvis Podcast. We'll be back in the fall with all new episodes! Thank you for journeying with us!

Lastly, if you would like to share some feedback with us, please fill out this brief Listener Survey!

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