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Woman, Behold Thy Son: Reflections on Suffering in Our Society

When we contemplate Christ Crucified, we enter into an encounter with the brokenness and suffering in our lives and our society. Often this encounter can be overwhelming. Who can help us see and make sense of this pain and misery if not Mary, his mother and first disciple? How can she help us endure and even begin to address the injustices that plague our world? Gloria Purvis guides us in this meditation on love and discipleship.

Speaker:

Gloria Purvis is an author, commentator, public scholar and the host and executive producer of The Gloria Purvis Podcast. Through her media presence, she has been a strong Catholic voice for life issues, religious liberty, and racial justice. She has appeared in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, PBS Newshour, NPR, Newsweek, and Catholic Answers Live, and hosted Morning Glory, an international radio show. She was Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic of the Year for 2020. She presented a powerful video series entitled Racism, Human Dignity and The Catholic Church through the Word on Fire Institute. She was part of a groundbreaking, exclusive interview with Pope Francis with a delegation from America Media. Most recently, she delivered one of the keynote speeches at the historic National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

She is the Inaugural Pastoral Fellow at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame University and recently received Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from the University of Portland in Oregon and Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities USA.