Gloria Purvis on Her Conversion to the Catholic Faith
Gloria Purvis on Her Conversion to the Catholic Faith
Episode 95

Gloria Purvis on Her Conversion to the Catholic Faith

Featuring Chenele Shaw

June 13, 2022 | 30 min.

In this episode, Chenele Shaw chats with Gloria Purvis about her conversion to Catholicism when she was twelve years old after encountering the Lord in Eucharistic Adoration. Although her parents were not Catholic, they supported her passion to witness to the faith as an advocate for the sacredness and dignity of the unborn, and Black lives.

About the Author

Gloria Purvis is a pro-life and anti-racist activist, the host ofThe Gloria Purvis Podcast, and a Pastoral Fellow for the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. 

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